The Snob (1924 film)

The Snob
Directed by Monta Bell
Written by Monta Bell
Based on The Snob: The Story of a Marriage 
by Helen Reimensnyder Martin
Starring John Gilbert
Norma Shearer
Conrad Nagel
Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release dates
  • November 19, 1924 (1924-11-19) (United States)
Running time
70 minutes
Country United States
Language Silent
English intertitles
Budget $100,000[1]

The Snob was a 1924 American silent drama film directed by Monta Bell. The film starred Norma Shearer and John Gilbert prior to their stardom, together with Phyllis Haver, Conrad Nagel and Hedda Hopper.[1] The film was written by Monta Bell, and was based on the novel The Snob: The Story of a Marriage by Helen Reimensnyder Martin.[2] The film is now considered lost.[3]

Plot

Two schoolteachers, married for love, are parted by the husband's obsessive desire for wealth and social position.

Cast

References

  1. 1 2 Slide, Anthony (2005). Silent Topics: Essays On Undocumented Areas Of Silent Film. Scarecrow Press. p. 19. ISBN 0-810-85016-8.
  2. White Munden, Kenneth, ed. (1971). The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films, 1921-1930. R. R. Bowker. p. 737. ISBN 0-835-20440-5.
  3. Jacobs, Lea (2008). The Decline of Sentiment: American Film in the 1920s. University of California Press. p. 119. ISBN 0-520-23701-3.

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