Any Woman
{{short description|1925 film}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=September 2020}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Any Woman
| image = Donald Reed and Alice Terry in Any Woman.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Reed and Terry in a still from the film
| director = Henry King
| producer = Jesse L. Lasky
Adolph Zukor
| screenplay = Randolph Bartlett
Jules Furthman
Arthur Somers Roche
Beatrice Van
| starring = Alice Terry
Donald Reed
Margarita Fischer
Lawson Butt
Aggie Herring
James Neill
Henry Kolker
| music =
| cinematography = Ernest Haller
William Schurr
| editing =
| studio = Famous Players–Lasky Corporation
| distributor = Paramount Pictures
| released = {{Film date|1925|5|4}}
| runtime = 60 minutes
| country = United States
| language = Silent (English intertitles)
| budget =
| gross =
}}
Any Woman is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Henry King and written by Randolph Bartlett, Jules Furthman, Arthur Somers Roche and Beatrice Van. The film stars Alice Terry, Donald Reed, Margarita Fischer, Lawson Butt, Aggie Herring, James Neill, and Henry Kolker. The film was released on May 4, 1925, by Paramount Pictures.{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9501EFDD1E38E033A25754C2A9639C946495D6CF|title=Movie Review - Any Woman - THE SCREEN - NYTimes.com|work=The New York Times|access-date=February 5, 2015}}{{cite web|url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=2605|title=Any Woman|work=afi.com|access-date=February 5, 2015}}[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/A/AnyWoman1925.html Progressive Silent Film List: Any Woman] at silentera.com
Plot
As described in a film magazine review,{{Citation |title=New Pictures: Any Woman |journal=Exhibitors Herald |volume=21 |issue=6 |pages=62 |date=2 May 1925 |url=https://archive.org/details/exhibitorsherald21unse/page/n725/mode/1up |access-date=25 January 2022}} {{Source-attribution}} when Ellen Linden returns home, she finds her father ill and without funds. She immediately goes to work for James Rand and Egbert Phillips. She grows friendly with James, which makes Egbert jealous, although both are married men. Tom Galloway, a young friend of her father, loves her, but leaves for Europe. While he is there, she becomes innocently compromised with James, and his wife names her as a co-respondent in a suit for divorce. After the divorce, James proposes but Ellen turns him down. Tom returns, but writes to Ellen that he is sailing to Honolulu and wishes her happiness. She races for the ship and tells him that she is going with him on a honeymoon cruise.
Cast
{{Cast listing|
- Alice Terry as Ellen Linden
- Donald Reed as Tom Galloway
- Margarita Fischer as Mrs. Rand
- Lawson Butt as James Rand
- Aggie Herring as Mrs. Galloway
- James Neill as William Linden
- Henry Kolker as Egbert Phillips
- De Sacia Mooers as Mrs. Phillips
- George Periolat as Robert Cartwright
- Lucille Hutton as Agnes Young
- Arthur Hoyt as Jones
- Malcolm Denny as Lord Brackenridge
- Thelma Morgan as Alice Cartwright
}}
Preservation
With no prints of Any Woman located in any film archives,[http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.3452/default.html The Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Any Woman] it is a lost film.{{Cite web |url=http://www.silentsaregolden.com/arneparamountpictures.html |title=Any Woman at Arne Andersen's Lost Film Files: Lost 1925 Paramount film - 1925 |access-date=March 15, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150822130955/http://www.silentsaregolden.com/arneparamountpictures.html |archive-date=August 22, 2015 |url-status=dead }}
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|0015574|Any Woman}}
{{Henry King}}
Category:1920s English-language films
Category:Silent American drama films
Category:Paramount Pictures films
Category:Films directed by Henry King
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:American silent feature films
Category:Lost American drama films
Category:English-language drama films
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