Passion's Playground

Name: Passion's Playground
Genre: Drama
Duration: 50 min
Cast: Katherine MacDonald, Norman Kerry, Nell Craig

19201920
50m

Katherine MacDonald in Passion's Playground (1920)

Drama

Mary Grant, a convent girl, goes to Monte Carlo, and because of her winnings becomes the center of attraction. Prince Angelo Della Robbia falls in love with Mary, and introduces her to his b... Read allMary Grant, a convent girl, goes to Monte Carlo, and because of her winnings becomes the center of attraction. Prince Angelo Della Robbia falls in love with Mary, and introduces her to his brother. Prince Angelo, whose bride turns out to be Mary's friend Marie Grant, who had run ... Read allMary Grant, a convent girl, goes to Monte Carlo, and because of her winnings becomes the center of attraction. Prince Angelo Della Robbia falls in love with Mary, and introduces her to his brother. Prince Angelo, whose bride turns out to be Mary's friend Marie Grant, who had run away from the convent with a married man, Mary moved by her schoolmate's pleas, keeps her ... Read all

Director
- J.A. Barry
Writers
- C.N. Williamson(novel "The Guests of Hercules")
- A.M. Williamson(novel "The Guests of Hercules")
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Virginia Ainsworth, Howard Gaye, Norman Kerry, Katherine MacDonald, Edwin Stevens, and Rudolph Valentino in Passion's Playground (1920)

Director
- J.A. Barry
Writers
- C.N. Williamson(novel "The Guests of Hercules") (scenario)
- A.M. Williamson(novel "The Guests of Hercules") (scenario)
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Mary Grant, a convent girl, goes to Monte Carlo, and because of her winnings becomes the center of attraction. Prince Angelo Della Robbia falls in love with Mary, and introduces her to his brother. Prince Angelo, whose bride turns out to be Mary's friend Marie Grant, who had run away from the convent with a married man, Mary moved by her schoolmate's pleas, keeps her secret. Idina Bland, however, enraged at Prince Angelo's marriage, exposes the scandal. In the absence of Prince Vanno, Marie falsely asserts that the story is not hers, but that of Mary Grant who, by her silence, seems to admit guilt. Mary leaves Monte Carlo, but an old friend, Molly Maxwell, arrives and exposes the truth. Prince Vanno goes in search of the innocent Mary, arriving in time to save his love from adventurers who are attempting to steal her wealth. —Pamela Short

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Taglines
- Here at last, is the remarkable, all-absorbing story in pictures, with the wondrously beautiful Katherine MacDonald in the role of the convent-reared "Mary Grant," whose unconventional, though innocent conduct and huge winnings at Monte Carlo brought her notoriety and sensational experiences in the circles of mixed nobility. (Print Ad-Painesville Telegraph, ((Painesville Ohio)) 4 June 1920)
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- Drama
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Not all of it is lost!

Parts of this early Valentino drama, or should I say Katherine MacDonald drama, since she's the STAR, showed up in the documentary "Legend of Rudolph Valentino"(1962, on video 1982). It has a clip of Valentino at the beach trying to impress MacDonald by wading fully dressed into the surf to rescue a little baby. The only reason this movie probably has any consciousness today is most certainly for Valentino being in it. MacDonald, no matter how beautiful she was, has been forgotten in the annals of the silent film. Notice how much Katherine MacDonald favors one of Valentino's later co-stars, Agnes Ayres from the Sheik & Son of the Sheik. These two women must have had the same make-up scheme. Very accentuated line-mouths with a sort of pucker. Anyhow this was the beauty standard of the day. But it would be nice to see this seemingly sprightly adventure in it's entirety if the whole film exists.

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