Vanity's Price (1924)
1h
Running Time
September 7, 1924Release Date
Vanity's Price (1924)
1h
Running Time
September 7, 1924Release Date
Plot.
Successful actress Vanna Du Maurier ignores her friends' advice and overworks herself toward her goal of having her own theater. She is introduced to Henri De Greve, a millionaire who might help her, but she recognizes him to be her former husband, the father of her son, Teddy, and therefore refuses to have anything to do with him. The shock of seeing him is hard on Vanna, and fearing the loss of her youthful beauty, she visits a physician in Vienna to be rejuvenated. Vanna returns thoroughly changed and even invites the attentions of De Greve when she realizes his interest in Sylvia Grayson, Teddy's sweetheart. Teddy turns against his mother, Sylvia attempts to drown herself, and Vanna lures De Greve to her boudoir, where she discloses his past and gives him a beating with a riding crop. Sylvia and Teddy are reunited and forgive Vanna, who now recognizes the folly of vanity and accepts the proposal of long-time admirer Richard Dowling. This film is lost.
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Cast & Crew.
Anna Q. Nilsson
Vanna du Maurier
Stuart Holmes
Henri de Greve
Wyndham Standing
Richard Dowling
Arthur Rankin
Teddy
Lucille Ricksen
Sylvia
Robert Bolder
Bill Connors
Cissy Fitzgerald
Mrs. Connors
Dot Farley
Katherine
Charles Newton
The Butler
Rowfat-Bey Haliloff
Dancer
Roy William Neill
Director
Paul Bern
Writer
Hal Mohr
Cinematography
Details.
Wiki.
Vanity's Price is a lost 1924 American silent drama film directed by Roy William Neill and starring Anna Q. Nilsson. It was produced by the Gothic Productions company and released by FBO.
The film is notable as the feature that brought assistant director Josef von Sternberg to the attention of critics for his handling of two sequences in the film.