Rose of the World (1925 film)
{{short description|1925 film directed by Harry Beaumont}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Rose of the World
| image = Rose of the World (1925) - 2.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Film still with Forrest and Miller
| director = Harry Beaumont
| producer = Harry Cohn
| writer =
| screenplay = Julien Josephson
Dorothy Farnum
| story =
| based_on = {{Based on|Rose of the World|Kathleen Norris}}
| starring = Patsy Ruth Miller
Allan Forrest
Pauline Garon
| narrator =
| music =
| cinematography = David Abel
| editing =
| studio = Warner Bros. Pictures
| distributor = Warner Bros. Pictures
| released = {{Film date|1925|11|21|US|ref1={{cite web | url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=11782 | title=Rose of the World: Detail View | publisher=American Film Institute | accessdate= September 22, 2017 | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170923002209/http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=11782 | url-status=live | archivedate=September 23, 2017}}}}
| runtime = 8 reels
| country = United States
| language = Silent (English intertitles)
}}
Rose of the World is a 1925 American silent melodrama film directed by Harry Beaumont, which stars Patsy Ruth Miller, Allan Forrest, and Pauline Garon. The screenplay was written by Julien Josephson and Dorothy Farnum. Based on the 1924 novel of the same name by Kathleen Norris, the film was released by Warner Brothers on November 21, 1925.[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/R/RoseOfTheWorld1925.html Progressive Silent Film List: Rose of the World] at silentera.com
The film has no relation to the 1918 film of the same name released by Artcraft Pictures, which is based upon a different novel.
Plot
As described in a film magazine review,{{Citation |title=New Pictures: Rose of the World |journal=Exhibitors Herald |volume=23 |issue=11 |pages=69 |date=5 December 1925 |publisher=Exhibitors Herald Company |location=Chicago, Illinois |url=https://archive.org/details/exhibitorsherald22unse/page/1228/mode/1up |access-date=14 November 2022}} {{Source-attribution}} a young man who breaks his engagement to one woman to marry another learns after marriage that he is sadly mismated. The woman to whom he was first engaged also marries and is unhappy. The frivolous wife of the hero dies, however, and his longing turnstoward the woman he once rejected. Her husband is killed, and she and the man who once spurned her plan a happy future together.
Cast list
{{Cast listing|
- Patsy Ruth Miller as Rose Kirby
- Allan Forrest as Jack Talbot
- Pauline Garon as Edith Rogers
- Rockliffe Fellowes as Clyde Bainbridge
- Barbara Luddy as Cecilia Kirby
- Alec Francis as Gramp Tallifer
- Helen Dunbar as Mrs. John Talbot
- Lydia Knott as Mrs. Kirby
- Edward Peil Jr. as The boy
- Carrie Clark Ward as Sally Towsey
- Carmencita Johnson as Baby (uncredited)
- Virginia Marshall as Little Girl (uncredited)
- Cammilla Johnson as Audrey (uncredited)
}}
Preservation
With no prints of Rose of the World located in any film archives,[https://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.8804/ Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Rose of the World] it is a lost film.
References
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External links
{{commons category|Rose of the World (1925 film)}}
- {{IMDb title|0016299}}
- {{Tcmdb title|499282}}
- {{AFI film|11782}}
- [https://www.silentfilmstillarchive.com/roseof.htm Stills] at silentfilmstillarchive.com
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20111108033640/https://silenthollywood.com/roseoftheworld.html Stills] at silenthollywood.com
{{Harry Beaumont}}
Category:1920s English-language films
Category:1920s melodrama films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:American silent feature films
Category:English-language drama films
Category:Films based on American novels
Category:Films directed by Harry Beaumont
Category:Lost American drama films
Category:Silent American drama films
Category:Lost silent American films
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