A LIVE "Anything But Silent" Event!
BEAUTY’S
WORTH (1922)
featuring Live
Piano Accompaniment by BEN MODEL from home!
Live Streaming on Wednesday,
January 19th at 7:00 PM Eastern Time!
General Admission is Pay-What-You-Want! – Click "Buy
Tickets" above for price options
BEAUTY’S WORTH is a quasi-Cinderella tale, with Marion Davies as Prudence Cole, a young
Quaker woman who attempts to enter society while being watched over by two
spinster aunts. Mixing in as best she can at a seaside country club, she is
romanced by a superficial young cad (Hallam
Cooley) as well as by a young artist (Forrest
Stanley) who sees her inner beauty. The artist stages a lavish theatrical
game of charades for the club members that features young Prudence, and she
makes a big hit with the socialites. As in THE BRIDE’S PLAY, in the end Davies’
character must choose between two men who adore her by learning which of them
truly loves her.
Released in May 1922, BEAUTY’S WORTH features the same creative
team, in particular the art director Joseph Urban, and some of the supporting
cast that would be the nucleus of WHEN KNIGHTHOOD WAS IN FLOWER in Davies’
breakout hit released in the fall of that year. The film is presented in a
digital scan from a nitrate 35mm print. Courtesy of Undercrank
Productions/Library of Congress. (USA,
1922, 73 min., NR, Silent with English intertitles | Dir. Robert G. Vignola)
Ben Model is one of America’s leading silent film accompanists, and has been playing piano and organ for silent films at the New York MoMA since 1984 and the CAC since 2006. Since March 16th, 2020, Ben has been hosting a weekly live-streamed silent film show from his living room, “The Silent Comedy Watch Party.” Click here to visit Ben's YouTube page!
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