Woman to Woman
About Woman to Woman
In Paris, the dancer Deloryse is about to marry the English officer David Compton when he is called away. A blow on the head wipes his memory, and he marries another woman. They meet again, and she has his son. Told that dancing will kill her, she dances at his wife's party to protect the boy, and dies.
Cast & crew
More about Woman to Woman
Graham Cutts took Michael Morton's 1921 play to Michael Balcon and Victor Saville. Betty Compson was paid £1,000 a week, and the budget reached £40,000. Most of it was shot in a converted power station at Islington, with some scenes in France, and it opened at the Marble Arch Pavilion on November 12, 1923.
Themes
Making
Compson asked for a musical trio on the set to help her cry on cue. Shooting ran from June through August 1923.
Look
Claude McDonnell shot the Islington sets, built in a former power station, and the scenes made in France.
Preservation
As of August 2010 the British Film Institute listed it among 75 Most Wanted films and did not hold it in the National Archive. Silent Era's list marks a print as existing.
Notes
- Betty Compson plays Louise Boucher, the dancer billed as Deloryse. Clive Brook plays David Compton, also called David Anson-Pond.
- Josephine Earle is Mrs. Anson-Pond. Marie Ault is Henrietta. Myrtle Peter is the son, Davy. A. Harding Steerman is the doctor.
- Victor McLaglen has an uncredited bit as a Nubian slave.
- Alfred Hitchcock was assistant director, art director, and uncredited co-writer. Alma Reville edited. He met her on this picture.
- Woolf & Freedman distributed it in Britain. Lewis J. Selznick's company released it in the United States on February 4, 1924.
- It was the first of three films from Morton's play. The next Compson picture for the same team, The White Shadow, failed.
Scenes
- David is called away on the eve of the wedding.
- A head wound leaves him married to someone else.
- Deloryse dances at his wife's party after the doctor has warned her off.
Influenced by
- Woman to Woman (Michael Morton play, 1921)
