The Blonde Saint

The Blonde Saint
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Directed by	Svend Gade
Produced by	Sam E. Rork
Written by	Marion Fairfax (scenario)
Based on	The Isle of Life; by Stephen French Whitman
Starring	Lewis Stone; Doris Kenyon; Gilbert Roland
Cinematography	Tony Gaudio
Distributed by	First National Pictures
Release date	November 20, 1926;
Running time	70 minutes; 7 reels (6,800 feet)
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

The Blonde Saint is a 1926 American silent romantic-adventure film directed by Svend Gade. It was produced by Sam E. Rork and released through First National Pictures. Lewis Stone and Doris Kenyon star and young newcomer Gilbert Roland is featured.

Plot

The plot of the film bears a striking resemblance to the plot of the Warner Brothers talkie, One Way Passage (1932). This silent appears to have been more exotic.

Cast

Lewis Stone as Sebastian Maure
Doris Kenyon as Ghirlaine Bellamy
Ann Rork as Fannia
Gilbert Roland as Annibale
Cesare Gravina as Ilario
Malcolm Denny as Vincent Pamfort
Albert Conti as Andreas
Vadim Uraneff as Nino
Lillian Langdon
Leo White as Tito

Production

Producer Rork's 19-year-old daughter, Ann Rork, has a major role in the film as she has in her father's later produced The Notorious Lady (1927). Lewis Stone also returned in The Notorious Lady.[1][2][3]

This was the final film of screenwriter Marion Fairfax. She and producer Rork had formed a partnership to make films in 1925, but, following the completion The Blonde Saint and a severe illness, she left film making and then wrote only for periodicals.[4]

Preservation

An abridged and or incomplete version of survives in the British Film Institute National Film and Television Archive, London.[5]

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References

Progressive Silent Film List: The Blond Saint at silentera.com
The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30 by The American Film Institute, c.1971
The Blonde Saint at Arne Andersen's Lost Film Files: First National Pictures 1926
Phillips, Sarah (2018). "Silent Screenwriter, Producer and Director: Marion Fairfax". In Welch, Rosanne (ed.). When Women Wrote Hollywood: Essays on Female Screenwriters in the Early Film Industry. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company. pp. 76–77. ISBN 978-1-4766-3277-3.
The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: The Blonde Saint

External links

The Blonde Saint on IMDb
Synopsis at AllMovie

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[1] Progressive Silent Film List: The Blond Saint at silentera.com

[2] The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30 by The American Film Institute, c.1971

[3] The Blonde Saint at Arne Andersen's Lost Film Files: First National Pictures 1926

[4] Phillips, Sarah (2018). "Silent Screenwriter, Producer and Director: Marion Fairfax". In Welch, Rosanne (ed.). When Women Wrote Hollywood: Essays on Female Screenwriters in the Early Film Industry. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company. pp. 76–77. ISBN 978-1-4766-3277-3.

[5] The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: The Blonde Saint