The Sporting Venus
(1925) American
B&W : Six reels / 5938 feet
Directed by Marshall Neilan

Cast: Blanche Sweet, Ronald Colman, Lew Cody, Josephine Crowell, Edward Martindel, Kate Price, Hank Mann, Arthur Hoyt, George Fawcett

Metro-Goldwyn Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn Pictures Corporation. / Produced by Louis B. Mayer. Scenario by Thomas J. Geraghty, from the story “The Sporting Venus” by Gerald Beaumont. Art direction by Cedric Gibbons. Costume design by Ethel P. Chaffin. Assistant director Thomas Held. Cinematography by David Kesson. Edited by Blanche Sewell. / New York premiere 10 May 1925 at Capitol Theatre in New York, New York. Released 17 May 1925. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / The production was shot on-location in Scotland, England, France and Spain. Sweet’s second MGM film.

Drama.

Survival Status: Print exists.

Keywords: Heiresses - Scots - Spain - United Kingdom: England (London), Scotland

Listing updated: 23 March 2004.

References: Brownlow-Parade p. 394; Drew-Speaking pp. 214, 234-235, 287; Eames-MGM p. 20; FilmDaily-1926 p. 55; Kobal-Fifty p. 29; Quirk-Colman pp. 16, 20, 72, 73-75; Smith-Colman pp. 31, 40-43.