The Masked Woman

{{short description|1927 film}}

{{For|the French film|The Masked Woman (1924 film)}}

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{{Infobox film

| name = The Masked Woman

| image = Masked Woman lobby card.jpg

| caption = Lobby card

| director = Silvano Balboni

| producer = First National Pictures

| writer = June Mathis (scenario)
Gerald C. Duffy (intertitles)

| based_on = {{based on|La Femme Masquee (1923)|Charles Méré}}{{cite book|last=Goble|first=Alan|title=The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yyqc0Qa6b60C&pg=PA861|date=January 1, 1999|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|isbn=978-3-11-095194-3|page=861}}

| starring = Anna Q. Nilsson
Holbrook Blinn
Ruth Roland

| music =

| cinematography = John W. Boyle

| editing = George McGuire{{cite magazine |editor-last=Clifford |editor-first=Edwin S. |date=September 18, 1926 |title=George McGuire |url=https://archive.org/stream/exhibitorsherald27unse#page/n91/ |magazine=Exhibitor's Herald |volume=27 |issue=1 |page=84 |publisher=Martin J. Quigley |location=Chicago, Illinois |via=Internet Archive}}

| distributor = First National Pictures

| released = {{Film date|1927|01|16}}

| runtime = 6 reels, 5442 ft.

| country = United States

| language = Silent (English intertitles)

}}

The Masked Woman is a 1927 American silent melodrama film produced and distributed by First National Pictures. Filmed in France, it was the last screenwriting effort of famed June Mathis, who died in 1927, and was directed by her husband Silvano Balboni, who was usually a cinematographer. The film stars Anna Q. Nilsson, Holbrook Blinn, and serial veteran Ruth Roland.{{cite book|title=Feature Films, 1921-1930|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rlLbRAPOgP0C&pg=PA498|series=The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States|year=1997|orig-year=1971|editor-last1=Munden|editor-first1=Kennth W.|volume=F2|publisher=University of California Press|location=Berkeley, California|isbn=978-0-520-20969-5|pages=498–499}}[http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=10684 The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: The Masked Woman]

Cast

Preservation

With no prints of The Masked Woman located in any film archives,[http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.7443/default.html The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: The Masked Woman] it is a lost film.[http://www.silentsaregolden.com/arnefirstnational.html The Masked Woman at Arne Andersen's Lost Film Files: First National Pictures - 1927]

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