CHILDREN OF DIVORCE
Sog.: Dal Racconto “Children Of Divorce” Diowen Johnson (1927); Scen.: Hope Loring, Louis D. Lighton; F.: Victor Milner; Int.: Clara Bow (Kitty Flanders), Esther Ralston (Jean Waddington), Gary Cooper (Ted Larrabee), Einar Hanson (Principe Ludovico De Sfax), Norman Trevor (Duca Digondreville), Hedda Hopper (Katherine Flanders), Edward Martindel (Tom Larrabee), Julia Swayne Gordon (Principessa Sfax), Tom Ricketts (Il Segretario), Albert Gran (Sig. Seymour), Iris Stuart (Mousie), Margaret Campbell (Madre Superiora), Percy Williams (Manning), Joyce Coad (Little Kitty), Yvonne Pelletier (Little Jean), Don Marion (Little Ted); Prod.: Adolph Zukor E Jesse L. Lasky Per Famous Players – Lasky; Distr.: Paramount Pictures; Pri. Pro.: 2 Aprile 1927 35mm. L.: 1942 M. D.: 70′ A 24 F/S. Bn.
Film Notes
Just about everyone has written off this film, so it’s better to expect nothing and then you might be surprised. Sternberg re-shot half of frank lloyd’s Children of divorce for paramount to make it releasable – you can’t miss the shadow language of his scenes. Clara bow and gary cooper are so young and exquisitely beautiful, lovers off-screen and on. Sometimes we glimpse what esther ralston might have been like in sternberg’s the case of lena smith, a lost film today except for the precious fragment recently discovered