Bluebeard's Seven Wives

1926 film

January 13, 1926 (1926-01-13)

Running time

94 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageSilent (English intertitles)

Bluebeard's Seven Wives is a 1926 American silent comedy film produced and released by First National Pictures. It was directed by Alfred Santell and starred Ben Lyon, Lois Wilson, and Blanche Sweet.^[1]

Plot

As described in a film magazine review,^[2] John Hart, who works as a teller in a bank, is fired after a shortage is found in his account. He gets a job at a movie studio, where they consider him a "find" and everyone works to make him a star. The publicity department has his name changed to Don Juan Hartez and he is planted on an incoming steamer. As a new screen lover, a press agent scheme is to marry him to seven wives. However, John balks after a few fake marriages and runs off and marries his sweetheart Mary Kelly.

Cast

Ben Lyon as John Hart / Don Juan Hartez
Lois Wilson as Mary Kelly
Blanche Sweet as Juliet
Dorothy Sebastian as Gilda La Bray
Diana Kane as Kathra Granni
Sam Hardy as Gindelheim
Dick Bernard as Film Magnate
Andrew Mack as Film Magnate
Daniel Pennell as B. C. Duval
Wilfred Lytell as Paris
Katherine Ray as Wife
Ruby Blaine as Wife
Lucy Fox as Wife
Muriel Spring^[3] as Wife
Kathleen Martyn as Wife

Preservation

With no prints of Bluebeard's Seven Wives located in any film archives,^[4] it is a lost film.^[5]

References

^ Progressive Silent Film List: Bluebeard's Seven Wives at silentera.com
^ Pardy, George T. (January 9, 1926), "Pre-Release Review of Features: Bluebeard's Seven Wives", Motion Picture News, 33 (2), New York City, New York: Motion Picture News, Inc.: 194, retrieved January 9, 2023 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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- "1923 Press Photo Actress and Follies Dancer Muriel Spring on Liner SS Majestic". eBay. Retrieved April 30, 2023.
- "Harry Cahill". Jazz Age Club. April 16, 2021. Retrieved April 30, 2023.
- Albuquerque Morning Journal, 12-23-1921 "...protest was made by Miss Muriel Spring, actress, when she was arrested in New York charged with failing to pay duty on jewelry and..."
- Billboard-1921-12-31 "Muriel Spring, moving picture actress, living at the Ambassador Hotel, must appear before United States Commissioner S. M. Hltcbeook on January 3..."
- "'Bluebeard's Seven Wives', lobbycard". Getty Images. 1925. Retrieved April 30, 2023. Ben Lyon, Katherine Ray, Ruby Blaine, Lucy Fox, Muriel Spring, Kathleen Martyn
- File:Muriel Spring - Dec 1922 HD.jpg
^ Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Bluebeard's Seven Wives
^ Bluebeard's Seven Wives at Arne Andersen's Lost Film Files: First National Pictures 1926 Archived March 3, 2016, at the Wayback Machine