The Gilded Highway is a lost 1926 American silent drama film directed by J. Stuart Blackton and starring Dorothy Devore, John Harron, and Macklyn Arbuckle.Progressive Silent Film List: The Gilded Highway at silentera.com
Plot As described in a film magazine review, a rich uncle dies and leaves money to the Welby family. The results are disastrous. Young Jack Welby abandons Amabel, the young woman he is engaged to; his sister Primrose quits her fiancé Hugo Blythe; and the whole family goes in for high living. In the end when they are broke, they come to their senses, but not before all family members experience considerable grief. A faithful former servant who runs their old home as a boarding house comes to their assistance. The lovers are reunited.
Cast Dorothy Devore as Primrose Welby John Harron as Jack Welby Macklyn Arbuckle as Jonathan Welby Myrna Loy as Inez Quartz Florence Turner as Mrs. Welby Sheldon Lewis as Uncle Nicholas Welby Andrée Tourneur as Amabel Gardner James as Hugo Blythe Mathilde Comont as Sarah Thomas R. Mills as Adolphus Faring
Censorship Before the film could be exhibited in Kansas, the Kansas Board of Review required the shortening of the comedic dance scene, where the girl falls into the man's arms.
Preservation With no prints of The Gilded Highway in any film archives, it is a lost film.
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