The Dangerous Age (1923)
Drama | January 1923
Cast:
Lewis Stone, Cleo Madison, Edith Roberts [ More ]Director:
John M. StahlWriters:
J. G. Hawks, Bess Meredyth, Frances Irene ReelsCinematographers:
Jackson J. Rose , Al SieglerProduction Company:
Louis B. Mayer ProductionsPreparation of the scenario by J. G. Hawks, managing editor of Louis B. Mayer Productions, was announced in the 27 May 1922 Motion Picture News. Principal photography began soon after at the Mayer studio lot in the Lincoln Heights district of Los Angeles, CA, as stated in the 17 June 1922 edition.
Articles in the 29 July 1922, 5 August 1922, and 19 August 1922 issues of Motion Picture News revealed that director John M. Stahl staged a train wreck along a Southern Pacific Railroad line in Ventura County, CA. The nearby California towns of Ventura, Santa Paula, and Fillmore, known for closing at 9:00 PM, contributed a large audience to the 1:30 AM event, which included an appearance by star Lewis Stone. A related sequence depicted an automobile racing the train, completed over a period of five days. Also featured was a reproduction of a New York City street measuring 220 feet long by 120 feet wide. It was said to be the largest movie set to date. Other highlights included “an extravagant café scene” requiring several hundred well-dressed background actors, and an automobile race filmed at Exposition Park in Los Angeles, according to the 19 August 1922 Exhibitors Herald. The close of production was reported by the 26 August 1922 Motion Picture News.
The Dangerous Age was released in January 1923, preceded by a 21 November 1922 premiere at the Fabian Brothers’ Garden Theatre in Paterson, NJ. An article in the 16 December 1922 Motion Picture News credited publicists Harry Reichenbach and Perry Charles ...
Preparation of the scenario by J. G. Hawks, managing editor of Louis B. Mayer Productions, was announced in the 27 May 1922 Motion Picture News. Principal photography began soon after at the Mayer studio lot in the Lincoln Heights district of Los Angeles, CA, as stated in the 17 June 1922 edition.
Articles in the 29 July 1922, 5 August 1922, and 19 August 1922 issues of Motion Picture News revealed that director John M. Stahl staged a train wreck along a Southern Pacific Railroad line in Ventura County, CA. The nearby California towns of Ventura, Santa Paula, and Fillmore, known for closing at 9:00 PM, contributed a large audience to the 1:30 AM event, which included an appearance by star Lewis Stone. A related sequence depicted an automobile racing the train, completed over a period of five days. Also featured was a reproduction of a New York City street measuring 220 feet long by 120 feet wide. It was said to be the largest movie set to date. Other highlights included “an extravagant café scene” requiring several hundred well-dressed background actors, and an automobile race filmed at Exposition Park in Los Angeles, according to the 19 August 1922 Exhibitors Herald. The close of production was reported by the 26 August 1922 Motion Picture News.
The Dangerous Age was released in January 1923, preceded by a 21 November 1922 premiere at the Fabian Brothers’ Garden Theatre in Paterson, NJ. An article in the 16 December 1922 Motion Picture News credited publicists Harry Reichenbach and Perry Charles with promoting the event throughout the region, assisted by the local silk industry, newspapers, police, and Paterson mayor Frank J. Van Noort. The latter personally mailed twelve letters addressed to random Paterson residents on behalf of the Press-Guardian newspaper, which offered fifty dollars to the first recipient to return their letter.
A Los Angeles opening at the Kinema Theatre followed on 23 December 1922.
The National Film Preservation Board (NFPB) included this film on its list of Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films as of February 2021.
After twenty years of marriage, Mary Emerson treats her husband, John, more like a son than a lover. Stung by her rebuffs, John succumbs to the youthful charms of Gloria Sanderson, whom he meets while on a business trip. He mails a letter to Mary telling her that he will not return, only to discover Gloria in the arms of her fiancé. Realizing his foolishness, John races to the mail train in an attempt to retrieve the letter. Although it reaches Mary, she too has seen her error and accepts John's professions of ...
After twenty years of marriage, Mary Emerson treats her husband, John, more like a son than a lover. Stung by her rebuffs, John succumbs to the youthful charms of Gloria Sanderson, whom he meets while on a business trip. He mails a letter to Mary telling her that he will not return, only to discover Gloria in the arms of her fiancé. Realizing his foolishness, John races to the mail train in an attempt to retrieve the letter. Although it reaches Mary, she too has seen her error and accepts John's professions of love.
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