Empty Hearts

{{short description|1924 film}}

{{for|the novel by Juli Zeh|Empty Hearts (novel)}}

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{{Infobox film

| name = Empty Hearts

| image = Empty Hearts (1924) - 1.jpg

| caption = Advertisement

| director = Alfred Santell

| producer = Ben Verschleiser

| writer = Adele Buffington (scenario)

| story = Evelyn Campbell

| starring = John Bowers
Charles Murray
John Miljan
Clara Bow

| cinematography = Ernest Haller

| editing =

| studio = Banner Productions

| distributor = Henry Ginsberg Distributing Company

| released = {{Film date|1924|09|15|U.S.}}

| runtime = 6 reels

| country = United States

| language = Silent (English intertitles)

}}

Empty Hearts is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by Alfred Santell. Adele Buffington wrote the scenario based on Evelyn Campbell's story published in Metropolitan.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/500355600/?terms=%22empty%2Bhearts%22%2Bsantell|title=Refowich Theater|date=March 9, 1925|work=The Standard Sentinel|access-date=January 16, 2019}}[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/E/EmptyHearts1924.html Progressive Silent Film List: Empty Hearts] at silentera.com

Plot

Milt Kimberlin marries a cabaret dancer who dies after he loses his money. Years later, he regains his fortune and remarries, but he is distant and misses his first wife. His new wife leaves him after a blackmailer's letter arrives suggesting infidelity in his first marriage, but eventually the truth is revealed and their relationship grows stronger.

Cast

Preservation

An incomplete print of Empty Hearts is held by the UCLA Film and Television Archive.[http://lcweb2.loc.gov:8081/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.3139/default.html Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Empty Hearts]

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