The Woman of Bronze is a 1923 American silent drama film directed by King Vidor and distributed through Metro Pictures. It is based on a 1920 Broadway play by Henry Kistemaeckers (adapted by Paul Kester) which starred Margaret Anglin, John Halliday, and Mary Fowler. The film version is considered to be lost.Progressive Silent Film List: The Woman of Bronze at silentera.com
Plot Vivian, a long-suffering wife, endures her artist husband’s infidelity with Sylvia, his young model. Leonard redeems himself when he recognizes the spiritual character of his wife. Vidor considered the film “out of my line.”Durgnat and Simmon 1988 p. 340: Thumbnail synopsis provided. The young artist discovers his wife Vivian’s “soul”
Cast Clara Kimball Young as Vivian Hunt John Bowers as Paddy Miles Kathryn McGuire as Sylvia Morton Edwin Stevens as Reggie Morton Lloyd Whitlock as Leonard Hunt Edward Kimball as Papa Bonelli
Production During the filming of A Woman of Bronze Vidor was invited to join Samuel Goldwyn Productions, with whom he would make two pictures: Three Wise Fools (1923) and Wild Oranges (1924).Durgnat and Simmon 1988 p. 26
Reception “A heavy emotional drama” as reported by Moving Picture World, 14 April 1923) Durgnat and Simmon 1988 p. 340
Footnotes
References Durgnat, Raymond and Simmon, Scott. 1988. King Vidor, American. University of California Press, Berkeley.
External links
Stills at silenthollywood.com Stills at silentfilmstillarchive.com Film still at stanford.edu Lobby card at impawards.com