The Silent Partner (1923 film)
{{short description|1923 film by Charles Maigne}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = The Silent Partner
| image = The Silent Partner 1923 lantern slide.jpg
| caption = Lantern slide
| director = Charles Maigne
| writer = Sada Cowan (scenario)
| based_on = {{based on|Saturday Evening Post articles|Maximilian Foster}}
| starring = Leatrice Joy
| music =
| cinematography = Walter L. Griffin
| editing =
| distributor = Paramount Pictures
| released = {{Film date|1923|09|16|United States}}
| runtime = 60 minutes
| country = United States
| language = Silent (English intertitles)
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The Silent Partner is a 1923 American silent drama film produced by Famous Players–Lasky and released through Paramount Pictures. It was based on a series of articles from the Saturday Evening Post by Maximilian Foster and directed by Charles Maigne. Leatrice Joy and Owen Moore star in the feature.[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/S/SilentPartner1923.html Progressive Silent Film List: The Silent Partner] at silentera.com The film is a remake of the 1917 film of the same name.[http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=12104 The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: The Silent Partner]
Plot
As described in a film magazine review,{{cite journal |last= |first= |title=Tried and Proved Pictures: The Silent Partner |journal=Exhibitors Trade Review |volume= |issue= |pages=58 |publisher=Exhibitors Review Publishing Corporation |date=17 May 1924 |location=New York |url=https://archive.org/details/exhibi00newy/page/n805/mode/1up |accessdate=15 December 2022}} {{Source-attribution}} Lisa Coburn is a young wife who has seen the folly of living on all that her husband earns when he is on Wall Street. She determines, unknown to her husband George, to prepare against any coming disaster. The husband's employee is infatuated with the young wife and plans to ruin the husband and obtain her. His plans succeed, but he fails to win the wife. Instead, she goes to the husband, who has left her in anger and haste, and wins him back by convincing him of the truth of her story.
Cast
{{Cast listing|
- Leatrice Joy as Lisa Coburn
- Owen Moore as George Coburn
- Robert Edeson as Ralph Coombes
- Robert Schable as Harvey Dredge
- Patterson Dial as Cora Dredge
- E. H. Calvert as Jim Harker
- Maude Wayne as Gertie Page
- Bess Flowers as Mrs. Nesbit
- Laura Anson as Mrs. Harker
- Bert Woodruff as Owens
- R. Henry Grey as Charles Nesbit
}}
Preservation
With no prints of The Silent Partner located in any film archives, it is a lost film.[http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.9170/default.html The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: The Silent Partner]
References
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External links
{{commons category|The Silent Partner (1923 film)}}
- {{IMDb title|0014470|title=The Silent Partner}}
- {{tcmdb title|id=501155}}
- {{AFI film|12104}}
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Category:Silent American drama films
Category:American silent feature films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:Famous Players-Lasky films
Category:Films based on short fiction
Category:Films directed by Charles Maigne
Category:Remakes of American films
Category:Paramount Pictures films
Category:Lost American drama films
Category:1920s English-language films
Category:English-language drama films
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