In the Heart of a Fool (1920)
Drama | October 1920
Director:
Allan DwanWriter:
Lillian DuceyProducer:
Allan DwanProduction Designer:
Charles H. KysonProduction Company:
Mayflower Photoplay Corp.In the Heart of a Fool was announced in the 21 November 1919 Variety as director Allan Dwan’s next picture, in which James Kirkwood and Mary Thurman were set to star. Principal photography began by early December 1919. An item in the 7 December 1919 San Francisco Examiner reported that $9,000 had been spent on co-star Anna Q. Nilsson’s gowns. A coal mine explosion was staged at Brunton Studios in Hollywood, CA, as stated in the 9 December 1919 issues of Los Angeles Times and Los Angeles Evening Express. The latter claimed that “forty pounds of powder were exploded” for the scene, which was caught by four cameras, and the filming was attended by novelist William Allen White, who wrote the 1918 novel on which the film was based, and Meredith P. Snyder, Mayor of Los Angeles. Production concluded by January 1920. Directly after, Allan Dwan re-teamed with Thurman, Kirkwood, and fellow cast member Philo McCullough on The Scoffer (1920, see entry).
Items in the May 1920 Picture-Play Magazine and 3 July 1920 Moving Picture World named the following as cast members: child actor Pat Moore; Emmett King; Maryland Morne; and Kate Toncray.
The National Film Preservation Board (NFPB) included In the Heart of a Fool on its list of Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films as of February 2021. ...
In the Heart of a Fool was announced in the 21 November 1919 Variety as director Allan Dwan’s next picture, in which James Kirkwood and Mary Thurman were set to star. Principal photography began by early December 1919. An item in the 7 December 1919 San Francisco Examiner reported that $9,000 had been spent on co-star Anna Q. Nilsson’s gowns. A coal mine explosion was staged at Brunton Studios in Hollywood, CA, as stated in the 9 December 1919 issues of Los Angeles Times and Los Angeles Evening Express. The latter claimed that “forty pounds of powder were exploded” for the scene, which was caught by four cameras, and the filming was attended by novelist William Allen White, who wrote the 1918 novel on which the film was based, and Meredith P. Snyder, Mayor of Los Angeles. Production concluded by January 1920. Directly after, Allan Dwan re-teamed with Thurman, Kirkwood, and fellow cast member Philo McCullough on The Scoffer (1920, see entry).
Items in the May 1920 Picture-Play Magazine and 3 July 1920 Moving Picture World named the following as cast members: child actor Pat Moore; Emmett King; Maryland Morne; and Kate Toncray.
The National Film Preservation Board (NFPB) included In the Heart of a Fool on its list of Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films as of February 2021.
Laura Nesbit, the daughter of old Dr. Nesbit and the belle of the younger social set in the town of Harvey, is planning to marry Grant Adams, the editor of the local paper, until Laura, to arouse her beau's jealousy, flirts with Tom VanDorn, a rising but unscrupulous lawyer. The heartbroken Grant allows himself to be drawn into an affair with Margaret Muller, the town siren, with whom he has an illegitimate son. On the rebound, Laura marries VanDorn and Margaret weds attorney Henry Fenn. History repeats itself when Laura's husband becomes infatuated with Margaret, thus causing both marriages to break apart. Meanwhile, Grant has given up his newspaper to become a foreman in the mines. After he is injured in an explosion, Grant is taken to the Nesbit home and nursed back to health by Laura. When, during a strike at the mines, Grant's little son is shot and killed, Grant becomes so overwrought with grief that he confesses the child's parentage to Laura, who forgives his past, thus allowing them to begin a new life ...
Laura Nesbit, the daughter of old Dr. Nesbit and the belle of the younger social set in the town of Harvey, is planning to marry Grant Adams, the editor of the local paper, until Laura, to arouse her beau's jealousy, flirts with Tom VanDorn, a rising but unscrupulous lawyer. The heartbroken Grant allows himself to be drawn into an affair with Margaret Muller, the town siren, with whom he has an illegitimate son. On the rebound, Laura marries VanDorn and Margaret weds attorney Henry Fenn. History repeats itself when Laura's husband becomes infatuated with Margaret, thus causing both marriages to break apart. Meanwhile, Grant has given up his newspaper to become a foreman in the mines. After he is injured in an explosion, Grant is taken to the Nesbit home and nursed back to health by Laura. When, during a strike at the mines, Grant's little son is shot and killed, Grant becomes so overwrought with grief that he confesses the child's parentage to Laura, who forgives his past, thus allowing them to begin a new life together.
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