The Winning of Barbara Worth
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| Directed by | Henry King |
| Written by | Frances Marion |
| Produced by | Samuel Goldwyn |
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| Edited by | Viola Lawrence |
| Music by | Ted Henkel |
Production company | The Samuel Goldwyn Company |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
The Winning of Barbara Worth is a 1926 American Western silent film directed by Henry King and starring Ronald Colman, Vilma Bánky, and Gary Cooper (replacing Monte Blue, busy with Ernst Lubitsch's So This Is Paris) in his first feature role.
Based on the novel The Winning of Barbara Worth by Harold Bell Wright, the film is about an engineer who vies with a local cowboy for the affections of a rancher's daughter while building an irrigation system for a Southwestern desert community. The movie was filmed in California's Imperial Valley and in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada.[1][2]
Cast
- Ronald Colman as Willard Holmes
- Vilma Bánky as Barbara Worth
- Gary Cooper as Abe Lee
- Charles Willis Lane as Jefferson Worth
- Paul McAllister as The Seer
- E. J. Ratcliffe as James Greenfield
- Clyde Cook as Tex
- Erwin Connelly as Pat Mooney
- Ed Brady as McDonald
- Sammy Blum as Horace Blanton
- Fred Esmelton as George Cartwright
- Bill Patton as Little Rosebud
Further reading
- Wild, Peter (2007). "14: Love Along the Irrigation Ditches". The Grumbling Gods: a Palm Springs Reader. Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press. p. 251. ISBN 978-0-87480-899-5. LCCN 2007015086. OCLC 122974473.
References
- ^ Earl, Phillip I. (Winter–Spring 1988). "The Story of the Making of The Winning of Barbara Worth". Humboldt Historian. Silents are Golden. Retrieved March 29, 2014.
- ^ "The Winning of Barbara Worth". Silent Era. Retrieved March 29, 2014.
External links
- The Winning of Barbara Worth at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
- The Winning of Barbara Worth at IMDb
- ‹The template AllMovie title is being considered for deletion.› The Winning of Barbara Worth synopsis at AllMovie
- OCLC 132840159, 318383640
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