Soul Mates is a surviving 1925 American silent drama film directed by Jack Conway, based on the 1911 novel The Reason Why by Elinor Glyn.Screenplay Info for Soul Mates (1925), Turner Classic MoviesProgressive Silent Film List: Soul Mates at silentera.com The movie was the second successful collaboration between Glyn and Conway.Eames, John Douglas (1981), The MGM Story, p. 21
The film's sets were designed by the art director James Basevi.
Plot Velma is a good little rich girl whose indomitable uncle orders her to wed Lord Tancred, a man she has never met. The same day, she becomes infatuated by a man she meets on the street, not knowing that it is Lord Tancred. When she finds out about his true identity, she becomes convinced he wants to marry her for monetary reasons. She feels betrayed and refuses to speak to him, until she makes an unusual discovery.Review summary, The New York Times
Cast Aileen Pringle as Velma Edmund Lowe as Lord Tancred Phillips Smalley as Markrute Tony D'Algy as Velma's brother Edythe Chapman as Tancred's mother Mary Hawes as Velma's maid Catherine Bennett as Dolly Lucien Littlefield as Stevens Ned Sparks as Tancred's chauffeur
Preservation status Soul Mates was saved by MGM with a preservation print, probably located at the George Eastman House.The Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Soul Mates
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Still at silenthollywood.com