Wine was a 1924

1924 in film

-Events:* Entertainment entrepreneur Marcus Loew gained control of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer Pictures to create Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...

 American comedy-drama

Comedy-drama

Comedy-drama is a genre of theatre, film and television programs which combines humorous and serious content.-Theatre:Traditional western theatre, beginning with the ancient Greeks, was divided into comedy and tragedy...

 film directed by Louis J. Gasnier

Louis J. Gasnier

Louis J. Gasnier was a French film director.Born in Paris, Gasnier was working in theatre when Pathé hired him to direct films in the earliest days of cinema. He directed comedian Max Linder in many of his early short comedies...

, produced and released by Universal Pictures

Universal Pictures

-1920:* White Youth* The Flaming Disc* Am I Dreaming?* The Dragon's Net* The Adorable Savage* Putting It Over* The Line Runners-1921:* The Fire Eater* A Battle of Wits* Dream Girl* The Millionaire...

 under their 'Jewel' banner. Clara Bow

Clara Bow

Clara Gordon Bow was an American actress who rose to stardom in the silent film era of the 1920s. It was her appearance as a spunky shopgirl in the film It that brought her global fame and the nickname "The It Girl." Bow came to personify the roaring twenties and is described as its leading sex...

 starred for the first time in her career. The film is presumably lost

Lost film

A lost film is a feature film or short film that is no longer known to exist in studio archives, private collections or public archives such as the Library of Congress, where at least one copy of all American films are deposited and catalogued for copyright reasons...

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Synopsis

Set during the Prohibition Era

Prohibition in the United States

Prohibition in the United States was a national ban on the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol, in place from 1920 to 1933. The ban was mandated by the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution, and the Volstead Act set down the rules for enforcing the ban, as well as defining which...

, Wine exposes the widespread liquor traffic in the upper-classes. Bow portraits an innocent girl who develops into a "wild redhot mama".

Reviews

• "If not taken as information, it is cracking good entertainment", Carl Sandburg
  Carl Sandburg
  Carl Sandburg was an American writer and editor, best known for his poetry. He won three Pulitzer Prizes, two for his poetry and another for a biography of Abraham Lincoln. H. L. Mencken called Carl Sandburg "indubitably an American in every pulse-beat."-Biography:Sandburg was born in Galesburg,...
  
   reviewed September 29 .
• "Don’t miss Wine. It’s a thoroughly refreshing draught ... there are only about five actresses who give me a real thrill on the screen – and Clara is nearly five of them", Grace Kingsley in The Los Angeles Times August 24.

Cast

• Clara Bow
  Clara Bow
  Clara Gordon Bow was an American actress who rose to stardom in the silent film era of the 1920s. It was her appearance as a spunky shopgirl in the film It that brought her global fame and the nickname "The It Girl." Bow came to personify the roaring twenties and is described as its leading sex...
  
   as Angela Warriner
• Forrest Stanley
  Forrest Stanley
  Forrest Stanley was an American actor and screenplay writer best known for his work in silent film...
  
   as Carl Graham
• Huntley Gordon
  Huntley Gordon
  Huntley Gordon was an actor born in Montreal, Quebec.-Profile:Gordon was educated in both Canada and England. He had various jobs including working in a bank, in a silver mine, contracting, as a commercial traveller, and being a cigarette factory owner before settling on the stage and at one time...
  
   as John Warriner
• Myrtle Stedman
  Myrtle Stedman
  Myrtle Stedman was a leading lady and later character actress in motion pictures beginning in silent films in 1910. She was born in Chicago, Illinois and educated at a private finishing school there. Miss Stedman performed in light opera and musical comedies there. Her voice was cultivated in France...
  
   as Mrs. Warriner
• Robert Agnew
  Robert Agnew
  Robert Agnew , also known as Bobby Agnew, born in Dayton, Kentucky, was an American movie actor who worked mostly in the silent film era, making 65 films in both the silent and sound eras....
  
   as Harry Van Alstyne
• Walter Long
  Walter Long (actor)
  Walter Huntley Long was an American character actor in films from the 1910s. He was born in Nashua, New Hampshire.-Career:He appeared in many D. W...
  
   as Benedict, Count Montebello
• Arthur Thalasso
  Arthur Thalasso
  Arthur Thalasso was an American film actor. He appeared in 71 films between 1919 and 1945.He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and died in Los Angeles, California.-Selected filmography:...
  
   as Amoti
• Walter Shumway as Revenue officer
• Grace Carlyle as Mrs. Bruce Corwin
• Leo White
  Leo White
  Leo White was a stage performer and appeared as a character actor in many Charlie Chaplin films. He started his film career in 1911 and in 1913 moved to the Essanay Studios. In 1915, he began appearing in Chaplin's comedies and continued through Chaplin's Mutual Film comedies...
  
  as The Duke

External links

• Wine at silentera.com database