The Sporting Venus

The Sporting Venus

1925 theatrical poster
Directed by Marshall Neilan
Screenplay by Thomas J. Geraghty
Story by Gerald Beaumont
Starring Blanche Sweet
Ronald Colman
Lew Cody
Cinematography David Kesson
Editing by Blanche Sewell
Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as Metro-Goldwyn
Release date(s) April 13, 1925
Running time 6 reels ;at 5,938 feet
Country United States
Language Silent film
English intertitles

The Sporting Venus is a silent 1925 romance film directed by Marshall Neilan.[1] The film was the second MGM release of Neilan, and starred his wife, actress Blanche Sweet,[2] who allegedly sported the lowest waistline of 1925. This is the first of two feature films that paired Ronald Colman with Blanche Sweet, the second being His Supreme Moment, which was released in May 1925.[3] This film is listed as being extant (surviving) at silentera database.[4]

Contents

Plot

Lady Gwendolyn (Blanche Sweet) is an heiress in love with a medical student, Donald (Ronald Colman), despite being bespoken to foreign prince Carlos (Lew Cody).

Cast

Reception

Life Magazine wrote ""The Sporting Venus" is typical of Neilan at his worst and at his best. It is foolish, inconsequential and spineless, and yet it is entertaining. ... If you look for rhyme or reason in "The Sporting Venus," you will look in vain."[5]

Reference

  1. ^ Guide to the silent years of American cinema. Reference guides to the world's cinema (illustrated, annotated ed.). Greenwood Publishing Group. 1999. pp. 85 207 259. ISBN 0313303452, 9780313303456. http://books.google.com/books?id=CdEPgRJyVPIC&pg=PA207&dq=%22The+Sporting+Venus%22&hl=en&ei=MvvqTKHZCIfEsAPdq-HHDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22The%20Sporting%20Venus%22&f=false. 
  2. ^ Ann Lloyd, Graham Fuller, ed (1983). The Illustrated who's who of the cinema (illustrated ed.). Orbis. p. 425. ISBN 0856135216, 9780856135217. 
  3. ^ Jacobs, Lea (2008). The decline of sentiment: American film in the 1920s (illustrated ed.). University of California Press. p. 242. ISBN 0520254570, 9780520254572. http://books.google.com/books?id=liWiBnpjpOsC&pg=PA242&dq=%22The+Sporting+Venus%22&hl=en&ei=MvvqTKHZCIfEsAPdq-HHDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CD0Q6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=%22The%20Sporting%20Venus%22&f=false. 
  4. ^ The Sporting Venus listed at silentera.com
  5. ^ "The Sporting Venus". Life 85 (Part 2): 28 29. http://books.google.com/books?id=RknZAAAAMAAJ&q=%22The+Sporting+Venus%22&dq=%22The+Sporting+Venus%22&hl=en&ei=MvvqTKHZCIfEsAPdq-HHDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAg. 

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