The American Venus

For the 2007 Canadian film, see American Venus.
The American Venus
Directed by Frank Tuttle
Produced by Adolph Zukor
Jesse L. Lasky
Written by Townsend Martin
Frederick Stowers
Robert Benchley (titles)
Starring Esther Ralston
Ford Sterling
Edna May Oliver
Louise Brooks
Cinematography J. Roy Hunt
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release date(s) 31 January 1926
Running time 87 min.
Country United States
Language Silent film
English intertitles

The American Venus (1926) is an American feature film directed by Frank Tuttle, and starring Esther Ralston, Ford Sterling, Edna May Oliver, Lawrence Gray, Fay Lanphier, Louise Brooks, Kenneth MacKenna, and Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and released by Paramount Pictures. Brooks appears, in her first credited role as 'Miss Bayport'. Lanphier was crowned Miss America in 1925.[1]

This film is now considered a lost film, with two trailers and two short segments in Technicolor surviving in the Library of Congress collection. The film was made at Paramount's Astoria Studios in New York City, and the title cards were co-written by Robert Benchley.

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