One Night in Rome

One Night in Rome
Directed by	Clarence G. Badger
Written by	J. Hartley Manners
Starring	Laurette Taylor Warner Oland Alan Hale Tom Moore
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (* as Metro-Goldwyn)
Release date(s)	September 29, 1924
Country	United States
Language	Silent film English intertitles

One Night in Rome is a 1924 film starring Laurette Taylor. The film was directed by Clarence G. Badger and written J. Hartley Manners, Ms. Taylor's husband, based upon his play. Laurette Taylor was a great name of the American theatre, who made only three films in a triumph-studded career, all of them derived from plays by her husband ^[1]. This was the last of those three films (the previous two had been done by Metro Pictures). Ms. Taylor seems to have enjoyed making One Night in Rome as she kept a personal print of the movie to always show guests at her home, re-running it over and over again.^[2]

Plot

Madame L'Enigme (Laurette Taylor) is a fortune-teller whose client Mario (Warner Oland) recognises her as a woman who disappeared in a cloud of scandal after her husband's suicide.

Cast

• Laurette Taylor - Duchess Mareno / Madame L'Enigme
• Tom Moore - Richard Oak
• Alan Hale - Duke Mareno
• William Humphrey - George Milburne
• Joseph J. Dowling - Prince Danieli
• Miss DuPont - Zephyer Redlynch
• Warner Oland - Mario Dorando
• Brandon Hurst - Count Beetholde
• Edna Tichenor - Italian Maid
• Ralph Yearsley - Gardner

Citations

1. ^ Eames, John Douglas (1981). "The MGM Story", p 13
2. ^ One Night in Rome at the silentera.com database

External links

• One Night in Rome at the Internet Movie Database
• Laurette Taylor in costume for the movie is visited by Ethel Barrymore who was touring a play on the West Coast at the time of production