Her Gilded Cage (1922)
Romance | 3 September 1922
Director:
Sam WoodWriters:
Elmer Harris, Percy HeathCinematographer:
Alfred GilksProduction Company:
Famous Players-Lasky Corp.On 3 December 1921, Camera! announced that Famous Players-Lasky Corp. had purchased screen rights to the 1921 Anne Nichols play The Gilded Cage as a vehicle for Gloria Swanson. The musical comedy had reportedly been produced on Broadway with the title Love Dreams. Other sources referred to the play as The Love Dream. Several months later, the 18 February 1922 Camera! stated that production was scheduled to begin on 27 February 1922, with David Powell added to the cast as the leading man. By 18 March 1922, filming was underway, “with opening scenes being in Southern France,” according to that day’s Camera! and a listing in the 8 April 1922 edition confirmed that production had concluded. During filming, the 20 March 1922 Paramount Pep clarified that the South of France was being recreated at the West Coast Lasky Studio lot in Los Angeles, CA, and the 17 April 1922 edition announced the title change to Her Gilded Cage. At that time, over half of one of the largest sound stages at the Lasky lot was used for a banquet hall, with “a veritable forest of evergreens” in the background “for the unique woodland effect necessary to the theme of the story—a bird in a gilded cage.”
The film received mixed reviews from exhibitors, many of whom took great care in promoting the picture through ornate displays and contests.
The 19 August 1922 Exhibitors Herald described the picture as follows: “Miss Swanson portrays a little French girl who becomes an artist’s model and later a cabaret dancer in order to take ...
On 3 December 1921, Camera! announced that Famous Players-Lasky Corp. had purchased screen rights to the 1921 Anne Nichols play The Gilded Cage as a vehicle for Gloria Swanson. The musical comedy had reportedly been produced on Broadway with the title Love Dreams. Other sources referred to the play as The Love Dream. Several months later, the 18 February 1922 Camera! stated that production was scheduled to begin on 27 February 1922, with David Powell added to the cast as the leading man. By 18 March 1922, filming was underway, “with opening scenes being in Southern France,” according to that day’s Camera! and a listing in the 8 April 1922 edition confirmed that production had concluded. During filming, the 20 March 1922 Paramount Pep clarified that the South of France was being recreated at the West Coast Lasky Studio lot in Los Angeles, CA, and the 17 April 1922 edition announced the title change to Her Gilded Cage. At that time, over half of one of the largest sound stages at the Lasky lot was used for a banquet hall, with “a veritable forest of evergreens” in the background “for the unique woodland effect necessary to the theme of the story—a bird in a gilded cage.”
The film received mixed reviews from exhibitors, many of whom took great care in promoting the picture through ornate displays and contests.
The 19 August 1922 Exhibitors Herald described the picture as follows: “Miss Swanson portrays a little French girl who becomes an artist’s model and later a cabaret dancer in order to take care of an invalid sister. While posing as a model she meets and falls in love with an artist. Later she is ‘discovered’ by an American press agent who takes her and the invalid sister to America, where he makes the dancer not only celebrated but notorious. There she is found again by the artist, who, in spite of his love for her, scorns her on account of her notoriety. In the meantime the artist’s brother and the invalid sister have met and fallen in love. After many trials for all four of the lovers, and many entangling situations, all is worked out to a pleasing completion and it all ends happily for everyone concerned.”
The National Film Preservation Board (NFPB) included this film on its list of Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films as of October 2019.
A French actress, the daughter of an aristocratic family, in order to aid her impoverished uncle and invalid sister, accepts a press agent's idea that she be billed as "Fleur d'Amour, the favourite of King Fernando." Actually, she has encountered the king only when performing in a cabaret. The tactic, however, is a huge success, but her lover, an American artist, misunderstands. They are later reconciled, and her sister is subsequently ...
A French actress, the daughter of an aristocratic family, in order to aid her impoverished uncle and invalid sister, accepts a press agent's idea that she be billed as "Fleur d'Amour, the favourite of King Fernando." Actually, she has encountered the king only when performing in a cabaret. The tactic, however, is a huge success, but her lover, an American artist, misunderstands. They are later reconciled, and her sister is subsequently cured.
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