The World and Its Woman
About The World and Its Woman
As a child in Russia, Marcia Warren, daughter of an American engineer, wants to marry Prince Michael Orbeliana, son of her father's employer. He later marries Baroness Olga, who is unfaithful, while Marcia becomes an opera singer. He renews the old feeling, then goes to the front with the Tsar's troops. After the Bolsheviks take power he learns that Olga and her lover, Count Alix Voronassof, are dead. In disguise he looks for Marcia, whose father has died. The Red leader Peter Poroschine tries to nationalize her. Michael arrives, they outwit Peter, and they leave together for America.
Cast & crew
More about The World and Its Woman
Frank Lloyd directed. Thompson Buchanan wrote the story and Edward T. Lowe Jr. the scenario. Samuel Goldwyn produced. Percy Hilburn (French) photographed. Goldwyn Pictures released it on 7 September 1919. Copyright 13 August 1919, LP14079. Seven reels, 6,735 feet. Wikipedia lists 70 minutes. The working title The Golden Song was changed in July 1919. The story moves from the Russian Empire to the RSFSR.
Themes
Background
The plot uses the war, the fall of the Tsar, and the Bolsheviks as the reason the prince and the singer leave Russia.
Making
Goldwyn built the picture around Farrar, a Metropolitan Opera singer, and Tellegen, and changed the title from The Golden Song two months before release.
Look
Percy Hilburn photographed it.
Preservation
A print survives. Copies are on the Internet Archive and Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- Geraldine Farrar plays Marcia Warren. Her husband Lou Tellegen plays Prince Michael.
- Mae Giraci plays Marcia as a child. Francis Marion plays the young prince. Alec B. Francis plays the elder prince. Edward Connelly plays Robert Warren.
- A Shadowland adaptation of October 1919 has Marcia reject the prince because he is already married and could not marry an American, then has Peter set a woman named Feda to guard her.
- AFI's synopsis has the prince's wife and Count Alix killed, and the couple escaping to America.
- Also cast: Rose Dione, Lydia Yeamans Titus, Lawson Butt, Arthur Edmund Carewe, and Naomi Childers.
- Copies are on the Internet Archive as TheWorldAndItsWomanForYT and on Wikimedia Commons under the title The World and Its Women (1919).webm.
Scenes
- The elder prince asks the girl Marcia to sing.
- Peter Poroschine tries to hold her after the revolution, and she and Michael get out to America.
Also available
- Internet Archive (TheWorldAndItsWomanForYT)
- Wikimedia Commons (The World and Its Women (1919).webm)
