The Glad Rag Doll (1929)

Lisa Rowe · Post by **Lisa Rowe** » Sun Jul 10, 2016 3:35 pm

Lost Film: Trailer: https://youtu.be/0leLeJuxIAI" target="_blank

Movie stills for reconstruction:

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greta de groat · Post by **greta de groat** » Sun Jul 10, 2016 10:12 pm

Watching the trailer, the name Arthur Rankin caught my eye. Looking him up, i see that he is indeed on the the Rankin/Davenport family, two of whom, like Dolores, married into the Barrymore/Drew clan.

greta

vitaphone · Post by **vitaphone** » Mon Jul 11, 2016 5:49 am

Only Vitaphone soundtrack disks for the trailer are currently known to survive.

Lisa Rowe · Post by **Lisa Rowe** » Mon Jul 11, 2016 7:05 am

Thank you for taking your time and consideration in writing to me:) My Field is more Early and Native American photography.

Came across some studio stills done by Edward Curtis (A Famous Native American Photographer) on "A Lover's Oath' Something just clicked and now I have a need to help preserve any more lose to lost films.

Then I found this place so who knows where things will go?

it's also fascinating the history and research you can do...........Which I have done here in there in the past. An associate of mine would be the largest private Louis Brooks collector in the world. So I have some vague ideas in this Field.

Like to see what one can turn up in this Field in discoveries by staying with it for awhile. Maybe I'm being Naive.

I'll have to talk to Drew............Hollywood is a small world:)

LR

Lisa Rowe · Post by **Lisa Rowe** » Mon Jul 11, 2016 7:33 am

Then according to Louise Brooks in a letter I read of her's, studios didn't have storage problems, they wanted to melt the films down for silver recovery.

Hundreds of ounces could be recovered in silver this way.

Maybe this is where "The Glad Rag Doll" finally ended up?

Post by **silentfilm** » Mon Jul 11, 2016 11:54 am

While it is certainly true that some exchanges and studios melted down films to reclaim their silver content, that is probably not why Glad Rag Doll has disappeared. Early talkies seemed really dated by 1931, so this film probably played a year or two and then nobody was interested in seeing it anymore. As long as the studios had a financial incentive to re-issue films, they were more likely to take good care of them. Films also wore out and were discarded because they were in poor condition. There are a ton of early talkies from before 1932 that are lost. Ron Hutchinson can tell us if the Vitaphone disks survive from this film.

Here's a trailer with only stills and no scenes from the film:

Lisa Rowe · Post by **Lisa Rowe** » Mon Jul 11, 2016 12:09 pm

Thank you for your reply:)

It was fascinating to read what you wrote, and that must have taken a long time to accumulate that kind of knowledge experience and wisdom:)

LR

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