The Enemy Sex
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The Enemy Sex | |
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Directed by | James Cruze |
Written by | Harvey F. Thew Walter Woods |
Based on | The Salamander by Owen Johnson |
Produced by | Adolph Zukor Jesse Lasky |
Starring | Betty Compson |
Cinematography | Karl Brown |
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Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 80 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
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The Enemy Sex is a 1924 silent film drama starring Betty Compson and directed by her husband James Cruze. It was produced by Famous Players-Lasky and released by Paramount Pictures. It is taken from the 1914 novel The Salamander by Owen Johnson.[1][2]
A print is preserved at the Library of Congress, Packard Campus.[3][4]
Cast
- Betty Compson as "Dodo" Baxter
- Percy Marmont as Garry Lindaberry
- Sheldon Lewis as Albert Edward Sassoon
- Huntley Gordon as Judge Massingale
- Kathlyn Williams as Mrs. Massingale
- DeWitt Jennings as Harrigan Blood
- Edward Faust as Comte de Joncy (credited as Ed Faust)
- William H. Turner as Blaineey
- Pauline Bush as Miss Snyder
- Dot Farley as Ida Summers
- William Austin as Joe's Friend (uncredited)
- Dorothy Dwan as Showgirl (uncredited)
- Pauline French as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
References
- ^ Progressive Silent Film List: The Enemy Sex at silentera.com
- ^ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: The Enemy Sex
- ^ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: The Enemy Sex
- ^ Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artist Collection at The Library of Congress, (<-book title) c.1978 by The American Film Institute
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to The Enemy Sex.
- The Enemy Sex at IMDb
- The Enemy Sex at the TCM Movie Database
- Synopsis at AllMovie
- Still with Dorothy Dwan at gettyimages.com
- book cover of Owen Johnson's book The Salamander(Yesterday's Gallery & Babylon Revisited, rare books