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The Price of a Party

1924 film by Charles Giblyn

December 23, 1924 (1924-12-23)

Running time

60 mins.CountryUnited StatesLanguageSilent (English intertitles)

The Price of a Party is a 1924 American silent melodrama film produced by Howard Estabrook and distributed by Associated Exhibitors. The film is based on a short story of the same name by William Briggs MacHarg published in Cosmopolitan magazine,^[1] with the film's scenario written by Charles F. Roebuck. It was directed by Charles Giblyn and stars Hope Hampton and Harrison Ford.^[2] The film was shot in Tec Art Studios.^[3]

In 2014, it was reported that an incomplete copy of the film was found in Navarre, Spain.^[4]

Cast

Hope Hampton as Grace Barrows
Harrison Ford as Robert Casson
Arthur Edmund Carewe as Kenneth Bellwood
Mary Astor as Alice Barrows
Dagmar Godowsky as Evelyn Dolores
Fred Hadley as Stephen Durrell
Edna Richmond as Evelyn's Maid
Donald Lashey as Hall Boy
Florence Richardson as Jazz Queen
Daniel Pennell
J. Moy Bennett

Preservation

A print of The Price of a Party has now been located and is now not considered a lost film.^[5]

References

^ "The Cosmopolitan. v.70 1921 Jan-Jun". HathiTrust. Retrieved December 21, 2019.
^ Progressive Silent Film List: The Price of a Party at silentera.com
^ "Moving Picture World Vol. 68, No. 1. p. 818". archive.org. June 28, 1924. Retrieved December 21, 2019.
^ Doria, Javier (May 28, 2014). "La Filmoteca de Navarra recupera tres películas únicas del cine mudo de 1924". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved December 21, 2019.
^ "7,200 Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films (1912-29) National Film Preservation Board (January 2021) - (Current as of 02.04.2021)" (PDF). LOC.GOV. February 4, 2021. Some recent "finds" now removed from this list:...