Enchantment (1921)
Comedy-drama | 20 November 1921
Director:
Robert G. VignolaWriter:
Luther ReedCinematographer:
Ira H. MorganProduction Company:
Cosmopolitan ProductionsProduction was still underway as of 8 Apr 1921, as a Var news item published that day announced that Corinne Barker and Maude Turner Gordon had recently been cast. A studio chart in the 16 Apr 1921 Camera noted that Enchantment was in its fourth week of production at International Film Studio on Second Avenue in New York City.
The film received a positive review in the 4 Nov 1921 Var, and performed “good” at the box-office, as noted in the 3 Dec 1921 Exhibitors Trade Review. A column in the same publication noted that source author Frank Ramsay Adams was also a theater owner in Whitehall, MI. At a screening in Detroit, MI, audiences flocked “by thousands.” ...
Production was still underway as of 8 Apr 1921, as a Var news item published that day announced that Corinne Barker and Maude Turner Gordon had recently been cast. A studio chart in the 16 Apr 1921 Camera noted that Enchantment was in its fourth week of production at International Film Studio on Second Avenue in New York City.
The film received a positive review in the 4 Nov 1921 Var, and performed “good” at the box-office, as noted in the 3 Dec 1921 Exhibitors Trade Review. A column in the same publication noted that source author Frank Ramsay Adams was also a theater owner in Whitehall, MI. At a screening in Detroit, MI, audiences flocked “by thousands.”
Ethel Hoyt, the only child of wealthy parents, surrounds herself with six young college men and spends her time dancing and dining with them, causing her parents to become alarmed. On her father's birthday, they attend a performance of The Taming of the Shrew in which Ernest Eddison is starred, and Mr. Hoyt decides that Eddison would be just the man to tame Ethel and makes the proper arrangements with the star. After they meet, a friend of Eddison's produces The Sleeping Beauty, and he suggests Ethel for the leading role. She accepts; but at rehearsals she stubbornly insists that her boyfriends be allowed to attend. Eddison gives in, but during the action of the play, he kisses her energetically and she is indignant until he is about to leave her; then, she admits her love for ...
Ethel Hoyt, the only child of wealthy parents, surrounds herself with six young college men and spends her time dancing and dining with them, causing her parents to become alarmed. On her father's birthday, they attend a performance of The Taming of the Shrew in which Ernest Eddison is starred, and Mr. Hoyt decides that Eddison would be just the man to tame Ethel and makes the proper arrangements with the star. After they meet, a friend of Eddison's produces The Sleeping Beauty, and he suggests Ethel for the leading role. She accepts; but at rehearsals she stubbornly insists that her boyfriends be allowed to attend. Eddison gives in, but during the action of the play, he kisses her energetically and she is indignant until he is about to leave her; then, she admits her love for him.
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