Yvonne from Paris

Yvonne from Paris
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Directed byEmmett J. Flynn
Written byFrank Howard Clark
Story byJoseph F. Poland
Starring
Production
company
American Film Company
Distributed byPathé Exchange
Release date
  • July 13, 1919 (1919-07-13)
Running time
5 reels
CountryUnited States
Languages

Yvonne from Paris is a 1919 American silent comedy film directed by Emmett J. Flynn and starring Mary Miles Minter, Allan Forrest, and Vera Lewis.[1] It was Minter's last film with the American Film Company; she signed a contract with Realart, part of Famous Players–Lasky, in June 1919.[2]

Plot

Mary Miles Minter, Allan Forrest and J. Barney Sherry in "Yvonne from Paris" (1919)

As described in various film magazine reviews,[3][4][5] Yvonne Halbert (Minter) is a dancing girl in Paris. Tired of the overbearing nature of her aunt and manager Marie Provost (Lewis), she runs away to New York, where her aunt has signed a contract for her to perform in a musical comedy production. On the voyage, Yvonne makes enemies with a young woman named Cecile (Theby), and friends with an Italian violinist, Luigi (Warren), with whose family she initially stays when she arrives in New York.

Yvonne makes money at first as a street dancer while Luigi plays his violin, and later she finds work at a cabaret. Here she is spotted by David Marston (Sherry), the producer of the play in which her aunt had signed her to appear. He takes on the young girl as a replacement for his disappeared French star and bills her as Yvonne, ignorant of the fact that she is indeed the real Yvonne. During rehearsals, Yvonne becomes acquainted with the play's writer, Lawrence Bartlett (Forrest), and a romance develops between the two.

Cecile, however, the young woman with whom Yvonne quarrelled on the ship, becomes jealous of Yvonne and tries to usurp her position as the play's star. Cecile's partner Pembroke (Grassby) encourages her to claim that she is the real Yvonne from Paris, and also threatens Yvonne, although she is rescued from his clutches by Bartlett. The truth is revealed when Yvonne's aunt arrives at the theatre and identifies her niece; Cecile is dismissed and Bartlett and Yvonne become engaged.

Cast

Lantern Slide for "Yvonne from Paris"

Preservation

With no prints of Yvonne from Paris located in any film archives,[6] it is a lost film.

References

  1. ^ Guide to the Silent Years of American Cinema, p. 191
  2. ^ "Mary Miles Minter Realart Star". Moving Picture World. 40 (13). New York City: Chalmers Publishing Company: [1]. June 28, 1919.
  3. ^ "Reviews and Advertising Aids: Yvonne from Paris". Moving Picture World. 41 (2). New York City: Chalmers Publishing Company: [2]. July 12, 1919.
  4. ^ "Reviews: Yvonne from Paris". Wid's Daily. 9 (5). New York: Wid’s Film and Film Folks, Inc.: 23 July 6, 1919.
  5. ^ "Reviews: Mary Miles Minter in Yvonne from Paris". Exhibitors Herald and Motography. 9 (3). Chicago: Exhibitors Herald Co.: [3] July 12, 1919.
  6. ^ The Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Yvonne From Paris

Bibliography

  • Donald W. McCaffrey & Christopher P. Jacobs. Guide to the Silent Years of American Cinema. Greenwood Publishing, 1999. ISBN 0-313-30345-2
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