A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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What Price Beauty?
(1925) United States of America
B&W : Five reels / 4000 feet
Directed by Thomas Buckingham

Cast: Nita Naldi [Rita Rinaldi], Pierre Gendron [John Clay], Virginia Pearson [Mary], Myrna Loy [vamp], Dolores Johnson, Sally Winters, La Supervia, Marilyn Newkirk, Victor Potel, Spike Rankin (Caroline Rankin), Templar Saxe, Leo White, Natacha Rambova, Rosalind Byrne

S. George Ullman production; distributed by Pathé Exchange, Incorporated [Pathépicture]. / Produced by Natacha Rambova + [Rudolph Valentino]. Scenario by Natacha Rambova, from a screen story by Natacha Rambova. Production design by Natacha Rambova. Costume design by Adrian (Gilbert Adrian). Cinematography by J.D. Jennings (J. Devereaux Jennings). Intertitles written by Malcolm Stuart Boylan. / © 18 January 1928 by [?] S. George Ullman? [LP24880]. Premiered 1925 in Pasadena, California. General release, 22 January 1928. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Silent film.

Drama.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Art Deco

Listing updated: 26 September 2022.

References: Mandelbaum-Screen p. 63 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb : with additional information provided by Richard Adkins.