The Russell Affair is a 1928 Australian silent film directed by P. J. Ramster. It was Ramster's last film.
Synopsis An artist, Stephen Patrick, falls in love with his model, Juliette (Adrienne Stewart). Juliette is in love with Dr Lonsdale, who is engaged to a wealthy widow, Ruby Russell (Jessica Harcourt). Ruby destroys Patrick's paintings of Juliette in a jealous rage, but manages to get Juliette blamed. A blackmailer, Arthur White (Gaston Mervale), complicates things.
Production The movie was financed partly by Juliette De La Ruze, a woman anxious to get involved in film production.Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, 147. Filming took place in Sydney, partly at the studios of Australasian Films, Hyde Park and "in the homes of prominent society people and wound up in August 1928.
The star, Jessica Harcourt, previously appeared in the expensive silent productions, For the Term of His Natural Life (1927) and The Adorable Outcast (1928) and was also well known as a fashion model."WOMAN'S WORLD." Examiner (Launceston, Tas) 9 Sep 1932: 10 Edition: DAILY 6 December 2011 She made no further films."Silent screen star returns to the limelight." The Australian Women's Weekly 10 Jun 1981: 6 accessed 6 December 2011
No copy exists today and it is considered a lost film.
Cast Jessica Harcourt as Ruby Russell Gaston Mervale as Arthur White Adrienne Stewart as Juliette Hope Arthur McLaglen Fred Twitcham Arthur Clarke Robert Purdie Roy Paine
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