Wine of Youth is a 1924 silent

Silent film

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, pantomime and title cards...

 comedy

Comedy film

Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...

-drama film

Drama film

A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

 directed by King Vidor

King Vidor

King Wallis Vidor was an American film director, film producer, and screenwriter whose career spanned nearly seven decades...

, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of films and television programs. MGM was founded in 1924 when the entertainment entrepreneur Marcus Loew gained control of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer...

, shortly after the merger which created MGM in April 1924. Vidor did not consider it important enough to mention in his autobiography, although it did advance the careers of three young stars-to-be: Ben Lyon

Ben Lyon

Ben Lyon was an American film actor and a 20th Century Fox studio executive.-Life:Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Lyon entered films in 1918 after a successful appearance on Broadway opposite Jeanne Eagels. He attracted attention in the highly successful film Flaming Youth , and steadily developed into...

, Eleanor Boardman

Eleanor Boardman

Eleanor Boardman was an American film actress, popular during the era of silent movies.-Early life and career:...

 and William Haines

William Haines

Charles William "Billy" Haines was an American film actor and interior designer. He was a star of the silent era until the 1930s, when Haines' career was cut short by MGM Studios due to his refusal to deny his homosexuality...

.

Plot

Mary (Eleanor Boardman) is a girl wooed by two suitors but made afraid of marriage by the quarrelling of her parents.

Cast

• Eleanor Boardman
  Eleanor Boardman
  Eleanor Boardman was an American film actress, popular during the era of silent movies.-Early life and career:...
  
   - Mary
• James Morrison - Clinton
• Johnnie Walker - William
• ZaSu Pitts
  ZaSu Pitts
  ZaSu Pitts was an American actress who starred in many silent dramas and comedies, transitioning to comedy sound films.-Early life:ZaSu Pitts was born in Parsons, Kansas to Rulandus and Nellie Pitts; she was the third of four children...
  
   - Lucy (scenes deleted)
• Niles Welch
  Niles Welch
  Niles Welch, also known as Niles Welsh, was an American performer on Broadway, and a leading man in a number of silent and early talking motion pictures from the early 1910s through the 1930s....
  
   - Robert
• Creighton Hale
  Creighton Hale
  Creighton Hale was an Irish-born American movie actor who worked in the silent film era.-Career:While starring in Charles Frohman's Broadway production of Indian Summer, Hale was spotted by a representative of the Pathe Film Company...
  
   - Richard
• Ben Lyon
  Ben Lyon
  Ben Lyon was an American film actor and a 20th Century Fox studio executive.-Life:Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Lyon entered films in 1918 after a successful appearance on Broadway opposite Jeanne Eagels. He attracted attention in the highly successful film Flaming Youth , and steadily developed into...
  
   - Lynn
• William Haines
  William Haines
  Charles William "Billy" Haines was an American film actor and interior designer. He was a star of the silent era until the 1930s, when Haines' career was cut short by MGM Studios due to his refusal to deny his homosexuality...
  
   - Hal
• William Collier Jr.
  William Collier
  William Collier, Jr. was an American film and stage actor who appeared in 89 films.-Biography:Collier was born as Charles F. Gal, Jr. in New York City...
  
   - Max
• Pauline Garon
  Pauline Garon
  Pauline Garon was a Canadian-born American silent film, feature film and stage actress.-Early life:Born in Montreal, Quebec as Marie Pauline Garon, Garon was the daughter of Pierre and Victoria Garon. Pierre was of French descent and Victoria's heritage was Irish...
  
   - Tish
• Eulalie Jensen
  Eulalie Jensen
  Eulalie Jensen was an actress on the New York stage and in silent films.Born in Chicago, she was selected as one of six extra girls from the 200 applicants responding to a New York newspaper ad inserted by Sarah Bernhardt. The famed actress was making a visit to New York City...
  
   - Mother
• E.J. Ratcliffe - Father
• Gertrude Claire
  Gertrude Claire
  Gertrude Claire was an actress of the American stage and Hollywood silent motion pictures. She was born in Chicago, Illinois and began appearing onstage at the age of 16. She played minor roles in New York, New York. In the coming years she began to play leads...
  
   - Granny
• Robert Agnew - Bobby
• Lucille Hutton
  Lucille Hutton
  Lucille Hutton , was an American film actress of the silent era. She appeared in 56 films between 1916 and 1931.She was born in Indiana.-Selected filmography:* Listen Lena * Wine of Youth * The Village Blacksmith...
  
   - Anne
• Virginia Lee Corbin
  Virginia Lee Corbin
  Virginia Lee Corbin was an American silent film actress. Corbin began her career as a child actress in 1916, and went on to become a youthful flapper in the 1920s...
  
   - Flapper
• Anne Sheridan - Flapper (as Gloria Heller)
• Sidney De Gray
  Sidney De Gray
  Sidney De Gray was an English actor of the silent era. He appeared in 72 films between 1913 and 1940.He was born in Unn, England and died in Los Angeles, California.-Selected filmography:* Just Imagine...
  
   - Doctor (as Sidney De Grey)
• Jean Arthur
  Jean Arthur
  Jean Arthur was an American actress and a major film star of the 1930s and 1940s. She remains arguably the epitome of the female screwball comedy actress. As James Harvey wrote in his recounting of the era, "No one was more closely identified with the screwball comedy than Jean Arthur...
  
   - Automobile Reveler (uncredited)
• Aggie Herring
  Aggie Herring
  Aggie Herring was an American actress. She appeared in 119 films between 1915 and 1939.She was born in San Francisco, California and died in Santa Monica, California.-Selected filmography:* Daredevil Jack...
  
  - The Cook (uncredited)