Fair Lady is a 1922

1922 in film

-Events:* June 11 - United States première of Robert J. Flaherty's Nanook of the North, the first commercially successful feature length documentary film....

 silent

Silent film

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, pantomime and title cards...

 film

Film

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 directed by Kenneth Webb

Kenneth Webb

Kenneth S. Webb was an American film director, screenwriter, and composer noted for directing a number of films in the early age of the American film industry...

. The film stars Betty Blythe

Betty Blythe

Betty Blythe was an American actress best known for her dramatic roles in exotic silent films such as The Queen of Sheba .-Career:...

, Thurston Hall

Thurston Hall

Thurston Hall was an American film actor. He appeared in 250 films between 1915 and 1957 and is probably best remembered for his portrayal, during the later stages of his career, of often pompous or blustering authority figures.Hall's best-known television role was as Mr. Schuyler, the boss of...

 and Robert Elliott. The film was based on the novel The Net by Rex Beach

Rex Beach

Rex Ellingwood Beach was an American novelist, playwright, and Olympic water polo player.- Biography :...

. The film was rereleased in Finland in 1924 and Portugal as O Selo de Cardi in 1927. The film's survival status is unknown.

Plot

In Sicily, Count Martinello is assassinated by Cardi and his mafia group on what would have been his wedding day. His bride to be, Countess Margherita, gets word of this from American Norvin Blake, who fails to protect her from Cardi, who wants her for his own. Later, Margherita and Norvin meet in New Orleans, where he declares his love for her.

Recognizing Gian Norcone as the group leader that killed the count, Norvin has him arrested after getting into a fight with him. Caesar Maruffi, a supposed friend and admirer who suits Margherita, is discovered to be Cardi. In the middle of a fight between Cardi and Norvin, Cardi is stabbed by Lucrezia, Margherita's maid. In the end, Norvin finally wins Margherita.

Cast

• Betty Blythe
  Betty Blythe
  Betty Blythe was an American actress best known for her dramatic roles in exotic silent films such as The Queen of Sheba .-Career:...
  
   as Countess Margherita
• Thurston Hall
  Thurston Hall
  Thurston Hall was an American film actor. He appeared in 250 films between 1915 and 1957 and is probably best remembered for his portrayal, during the later stages of his career, of often pompous or blustering authority figures.Hall's best-known television role was as Mr. Schuyler, the boss of...
  
   as Italian banker
• Robert Elliott as Norvin Blake
• Gladys Hulette
  Gladys Hulette
  Gladys Hulette was a silent film actress from Arcade, New York. Her career began in the early years of silent movies and continued until the mid-1930s. She first performed on stage at the age of three and on screen when she was seven years old. Hulette was also a talented artist...
  
   as Myra Nell Drew
• Florence Auer
  Florence Auer
  Florence Auer was an American theater and motion picture actress whose career spanned more than five decades.-Life and career:...
  
   as Lucrezia
• Walter James as Gian Norcone
• Macey Harlam as Count Modene
• Henry Leone as Ricardo
• Effingham Pinto as Count Martinello
• Arnold Lucy
  Arnold Lucy
  Arnold Lucy was a British actor claimed to have performed on the fabled London West End stage over 1,200 times before making his early film debut in the early 1910s during the Golden Era of the Hollywood system...
  
  as Uncle Bernie Drew

External links

• Fair Lady at silentera.com