Mademoiselle Midnight
About Mademoiselle Midnight
Napoleon III, at Empress Eugénie's insistence, banishes a Frenchwoman famous for her nights out. The film then follows her granddaughter, Renée de Quiros, heir to a Mexican ranch. Her father locks her in the hacienda after dark so she will not live as her grandmother did. She falls in love with an American visitor and is pursued by the outlaw Manuel Corrales.
Cast & crew
More about Mademoiselle Midnight
Robert Z. Leonard directed and produced. Carl Harbaugh and John Russell wrote it. Mae Murray, then married to Leonard, plays both the banished grandmother, Renée de Gontran, and the granddaughter, Renée de Quiros. Metro released it on 14 April 1924. It was the last Metro picture issued under the Tiffany Productions banner, which the couple owned. Monte Blue is billed as Owen Burke and Jerry Brent. Robert McKim plays Manuel Corrales, also billed as João.
Themes
Background
The prologue uses the French court of Napoleon III and Eugénie and Maximilian's Mexican empire as the reason the first Renée is sent to Mexico.
Preservation
A complete print survives.
Notes
- Paul Weigel plays Napoleon III, Clarissa Selwynne plays Empress Eugénie, and Earl Schenck plays Emperor Maximilian, all in the prologue.
- Robert Edeson plays Don Pedro de Quiros. Johnny Arthur plays Carlos de Quiros.
- Murray dances in the picture. Arthur supplies the comic part.
- Silent Era, cited by Wikipedia, records that a complete print survives.
Scenes
- Napoleon III banishes the first Renée at Eugénie's insistence.
- Don Pedro locks his daughter in the hacienda at night.
