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The Real Adventure

Retrospective 2020
Source: La Cinémathèque de Toulouse
Rose Stanton meets wealthy lawyer Rodney Aldrich on a Chicago tram. Shortly thereafter, the two are a happily married couple. But the young woman wants more than just loving pampering from her husband; she wants to be recognised as his equal partner. After her plans to study law collapse, Rose packs her bags and flees her gilded cage for New York. She works as a chorus girl before getting the opportunity to design the show’s costumes. When the company performs in Chicago, she meets up again with Rodney, who is not a fan of his wife’s career … As she did in The Other Half, Florence Vidor once again plays an emancipated woman in her husband’s film. Surrounded by nonchalant smokers and self-assured chorus girls, Rose demands respect, admiration, and friendship from her spouse. In King Vidor’s film adaptation of the bestselling book, there is a tried and true maxim to guide her, “every woman should have a trade in her hands”. No complete print of the film has survived. The second reel is missing and, at the end of the film, a scene featuring the birth of a child, which marks the start of The Real Adventure for the protagonist.
by King Vidor
with Florence Vidor, Clyde Fillmore, Nellie Peck Saunders, Lilyan McCarthy, Philip Ryder USA 1922 English intertitles, French intertitles 58’ Black/White & Tinting Restored version 2011 (incomplete)

With

  • Florence Vidor
  • Clyde Fillmore
  • Nellie Peck Saunders
  • Lilyan McCarthy
  • Philip Ryder

Crew

Director King Vidor
Screenplay Mildred Considine
Story Henry Kitchell Webster The Real Adventure (1915)
Cinematography George Barnes
Producer Arthur S. Kane

Produced by

Florence Vidor Productions, Cameo Pictures

Additional information

Print: La Cinémathèque de Toulouse