The Wicked Darling
(1919) American
B&W : Feature film
Directed by Tod Browning

Cast: Priscilla Dean [Mary Stevens, ‘The Gutter Rose’], Lon Chaney [‘Stoop’ Conners], Gertrude Astor [Adele Hoyt], Wellington Playter [Kent Mortimer], Spottiswoode Aitken

The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated, production; distributed by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated. / Scenario by Harvey Gates, from a story by Evelyn Campbell. Cinematography by Alfred Gosden. / Released 3 February 1919. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / Chaney and Browning’s first film together. [?] Some sources credit Waldemar Young with the scenario. The film was recovered in Europe in the 1990s. An English language restoration (of the intertitles retranslated back into English) was supervised by Rusty Casselton and Ted Larson.

Drama.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in Hirschhorn-Universal p. 31.

Survival Status: Print exists in the Nederlands Filmmuseum [slightly-abridged 35mm nitrate positive].

Keywords: Crime: Theft - Criminals: Gangsters - Police: Policemen - Prostitutes - Saloons - Transportation: Automobiles, Taxis

Listing updated: 14 January 2007.

References: Film viewing : Blake-Films p. xv; Edmonds-BigU pp. 96, 98; Hirschhorn-Universal p. 31; Spehr-American p. 100; Vermilye-Twenties p. 49; Weaver-Twenty pp. 28, 76 : ClasIm-298 p. 18.

Home Video: DVD.