Sandra (1924 film)

As described in a review in a film magazine,{{cite journal |last=Sewell |first=Charles S. |author-link= |title=Sandra; Barbara LaMarr and Bert Lytell Are Starred in Sawyer-Lubin Production for First National |journal=The Moving Picture World |volume=71 |issue=6 |pages=546–547 |publisher=Chalmers Publishing Co. |location=New York City |date=6 December 1924 |url=https://archive.org/details/movingpicturewor71novd/page/546/mode/1up |access-date=24 June 2021}} Sandra Waring (La Marr) is a woman with two personalities. Her easy-going complacent husband David (Lytell) cannot understand her, for at times she is an affectionate home-loving wife and at other times she is exotic with a craving for adventure and romance. When David faces ruin because of the collapse of a building he has designed, Sandra saves him by making a bargain with Stephen Winslow (Gordon), a connoisseur of women and at the same time finds the opportunity to follow her exotic side. She does not remain long with Winslow but visits Europe. Although she tastes romance and adventure and is acclaimed for her beauty and cleverness she is never satisfied. An affair with a Frenchman brings disillusionment when she discovered he is a crooked gambler and uses her for bait. Finally, she believes she has found happiness and true love with a bank president until he is arrested for embezzlement and it is revealed that he also has a wife. Returning home completely disillusioned, she believes that David has found happiness with Mait Stanley (Hyams), one of her best friends, and decides to take her own life after confessing her failures to David. She leaves and wanders into a church that her husband built where David’s friend Rev. William J. Hapgood (Austin) is minister. David, after he has searched in vain for his wife and come to his friend, the minister, for consolation, finally finds her at the church and takes her in his arms.

{{Cast listing|

• Barbara La Marr as Sandra Waring
• Bert Lytell as David Waring
• Leila Hyams as Mait Stanley
• Augustin Sweeney as Bob Stanley
• Maude Hill as Mrs. Stanley
• Edgar Nelson as Mr. Stanley
• Leon Gordon as Stephen Winslow
• Leslie Austin as Rev. William J. Hapgood
• Lillian Ten Eyck as Mimi
• Morgan Wallace as Francois Molyneaux
• Arthur Edmund Carewe as Henri La Flamme
• Helen Gardner as La Flamme's Wife
• Alice Weaver as Dancer
• Ethlyne Clair (uncredited)
• Downing Clarke (uncredited)

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With no prints of Sandra located in any film archives,[http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.8904/default.html The Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Sandra] it is a lost film. A trailer exists in the Library of Congress collection.Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress, p. 158, c.1978 by the American Film Institute

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• {{IMDb title|0015302}}
• [https://silenthollywood.com/sandra.html Stills] at silenthollywood.com

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