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The Scarlet Letter (1926 film)

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Malcolm, 2004: "Gish was the project's prime mover as she sought more mature roles after playing ingenues for D. W. Griffith." And: "...Gish's wholesome reputation put censorship groups at ease a most chaste Hester Prynne." expected from Gish. And: An opening intertitle reads "a story of bigotry
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Shooting took under two months. The production cost a total of $ 417,000 when factoring out $ 48,000 overhead costs.
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Durgnat and Simmons, 1988: p. 75-76: In both films Gish plays "the self-sacrificial lover..."
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The film was the second one Gish made under her contract with M-G-M and a departure from the
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Lion of Hollywood: The Life and Legend of Louis B. Mayer
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Victor Seastrom
Frances Marion
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Lillian Gish
Lars Hanson
Hendrik Sartov
fr
Hugh Wynn
William Axt
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
silent
drama film
novel of the same name
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Victor Sjöström
MGM
United Artists
UCLA Film and Television Archive
Lillian Gish
Lars Hanson
Henry B. Walthall
Karl Dane
William H. Tooker
Marcelle Corday
Jules Cowles
Joyce Coad
James A. Marcus
Iron Eyes Cody

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