Ladies of Leisure

Name: Ladies of Leisure
Director: Tom Buckingham
Genre: Drama
Released: 1926
Cast: Elaine Hammerstein, T. Roy Barnes, Robert Ellis, Gertrude Short, Tom Ricketts

1926 Drama Directed by Tom Buckingham

About Ladies of Leisure

Spoiled Marian presses Eric to marry her. Her brother wants her friend Mamie, whose scheming ex-husband tries to blackmail her. Eric stops Mamie from killing herself and is caught in a compromising spot when Marian finds them.

Cast & crew

Tom Buckingham Director
Elaine Hammerstein
T. Roy Barnes
Robert Ellis
Gertrude Short
Tom Ricketts
James Pier Mason
Joseph W. Girard
George Marion

More about Ladies of Leisure

Tom Buckingham directed. Columbia produced and released the silent melodrama. Elaine Hammerstein stars. It is not the 1930 Frank Capra film of the same title.

Themes

A forced engagement
Blackmail by an ex-husband
A suicide stopped
blackmail
suicide attempt
engagement
silent melodrama

Preservation

A print is at the Library of Congress.

Notes

The Library of Congress holds a print of this film and of Capra's 1930 Ladies of Leisure.
The two pictures do not share a plot.
Elaine Hammerstein is the lead.

Scenes

Eric pulls Mamie back from suicide and Marian walks in on them.