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The Woman Disputed
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Wikipedia article
'The Woman Disputed' is a 1928 American silent film. Norma Talmadge stars as a good-hearted Austrian prostitute drawn into a romantic triangle on the eve of World War I. Based on a Denison Clift play, the nationalities of the characters had to be adjusted to satisfy official complaints registered with the MPPDA from the German government.'The Silent Cinema Reader' By Lee Grieveson, Peter Krmer, page 323
Released with a soundtrack of effects and synchronized music, this film is the end of Talmadge's career in silent films. She was separated from her husband and producer Schenck, would take the next year for vocal lessons,'Silent Stars' By Jeanine Basinger, page 156 appear in two talking films, then retire. A print exists in the Library of Congress film archive, and has been recently revived.
The plot draws in part on the 1880 short story "Boule de Suif" by French writer Guy de Maupassant.
Cast
* Norma Talmadge as Mary Ann Wagner
* Gilbert Roland as Paul Hartman
* Arnold Kent as Nika Turgenov
* Boris de Fast as Passerby
* Michael Vavitch as Father Roche
* Gustav von Seyffertitz as Otto Krueger
* Gladys Brockwell as Countess
* Nicholas Soussanin as Count
References
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