Marianne (1929 silent film)

Marianne is a 1929 American silent romantic-drama film about a French farm girl who, despite already having a French fiancé, falls in love with an American soldier during World War I. It was made first as a silent film, then as a musical with a different cast, but Marion Davies starred in both versions.

Marianne
Directed by	Robert Z. Leonard
Written by	Laurence Stallings Gladys Unger Dale Van Every (also story) Joseph Farnham (titles)
Starring	Marion Davies
Cinematography	Oliver T. Marsh
Edited by	James C. McKay Basil Wrangell
Production company	Cosmopolitan Productions
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date	August 24, 1929 (1929-08-24)
Running time	80 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Cast

• Marion Davies as Marianne
• Oscar Shaw as Stagg
• Fred Solm as André (as Robert Castle)
• Robert Ames as Soapy
• Scott Kolk as Lieutenant Frane
• Émile Chautard as Père Joseph
• Mack Swain as General
• Oscar Apfel as Major

Production

In her 30th and final silent film, Marion Davies starred for director Robert Z. Leonard in this World War I story about a French girl who falls for an American soldier (Oscar Shaw). Davies was rushed into this project after production of the ill-fated The Five O'Clock Girl shuttered. The film was remade as a sound film. This silent version survives but was long thought lost. When Fred Lawrence Guiles wrote his biography of Davies in 1972, he stated the silent version was lost. The film offered Davies another chance to masquerade, this time as the aged army officer with a big mustache. By the time the decision was made to re-shoot the entire film as a soud film, Oscar Shaw was out and Lawrence Gray was signed as Davies' leading man.

External links

• Marianne at IMDb
• Marianne (1929) at the TCM Movie Database
• Synopsis at AllMovie
• Marianne at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films