The Red Kimono
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Story by Adela Rogers St. Johns | 6.2/10 IMDb Genre Drama, Romance Duration Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Language Silent
English intertitles Director Walter Lang
Dorothy Davenport (uncredited) Writer Adela Rogers St. Johns , Dorothy Arzner , Malcolm Stuart Boylan Release date November 16, 1925 (1925-11-16) Directors Dorothy Davenport, Walter Lang Screenplay Dorothy Davenport, Dorothy Arzner, Malcolm Stuart Boylan Cast Priscilla Bonner (Gabrielle), Nellie Bly Baker (Clara), Carl Miller (Howard Blaine), Mary Carr (The matron), Virginia Pearson (Mrs. Fontaine), Tyrone Power Sr. (Gabrielle's father)Similar movies Paprika , Zandalee , Jamon Jamon , Django Unchained , The Wolf of Wall Street , Forrest Gump Tagline You Will Get a Thrill From MRS. WALLACE REID'S amazing story of the traffic in girls! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Red Kimono is a 1925 American silent film drama about prostitution produced by Dorothy Davenport (billed as Mrs. Wallace Reid) and starring Priscilla Bonner.
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Production background
The film is notable today for being one of the few independent productions produced and written by women. This is the third of Davenport's "social conscience" releases, preceded by Human Wreckage (1923) on the topic of drug addiction (released five months after Wallace Reid's death from morphine), and Broken Laws (1924) about excessive mother-love.
The film is based on a real case of prostitution that took place in New Orleans in 1917. This film, billing itself as a true story, used the real name of the woman played by Priscilla Bonner who as a consequence sued producer Dorothy Davenport for a hefty sum in court and won. The case, Melvin v Reid has been cited recently in the emerging "right to be forgotten" cases around the world as an early example of one's right to leave a past one wishes to forget. In the ruling of the California Appellate Court (Melvin v. Reid, 112 Cal.App. 285, 297 P. 91 (1931)) the Court stated, "any person living a life of rectitude has that right to happiness which includes a freedom from unnecessary attacks on his character, social standing or reputation."
As with Davenport's earlier Human Wreckage in 1924, this film was banned in the United Kingdom by the British Board of Film Censors in 1926.
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Preservation status
A copy of this film is preserved at the Library of Congress. A DVD edition was released in the early 2000s.
References
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