The Bride's Play
About The Bride's Play
Aileen Barrett lives next to Sir Fergus Cassidy. He wants her. She wants the poet Bulmer Meade, until she hears that Meade treats her as a whim. The wedding to Cassidy is set, and the family revives the Bride's Play. A former lover, who knows that a bride was carried off during the play centuries before, tries to take her. She hits him across the face with her wedding slipper. Marion Davies plays Aileen and also Enid of Cashell, in the old story.
Cast & crew
More about The Bride's Play
George Terwilliger directed. William Randolph Hearst produced it for Davies. Mildred Considine wrote the scenario from a play by Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne. Ira H. Morgan photographed. Paramount released it on January 22, 1922. Seven reels, 6,476 feet, listed at 72 minutes. Wyndham Standing plays Cassidy. Carl Miller plays Meade. John B. O'Brien plays the Marquis of Muckross.
Themes
Look
Ira H. Morgan shot the wedding play and the older story.
Preservation
Preserved at the Library of Congress Packard Campus.
Notes
- Davies plays both the modern bride and the woman in the old abduction.
- The slipper is the weapon, not a lost shoe.
- A 2016 DVD from Edward Lorusso uses a score by Ben Model.
- The print is at the Library of Congress Packard Campus.
Scenes
- She strikes the man who tries to carry her off, using the wedding slipper.
Influenced by
- Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne's play
Also available
- Library of Congress