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The Sporting Duchess
(1920) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels
Directed by George Terwilliger
Cast: Alice Joyce [Muriel, Duchess of Desborough], Percy Marmont [Douglas, Duke of Desborough], G.V. Seyffertitz (Gustav von Seyffertitz) [Major Roland Mostyn], Edith Campbell Walker [Mrs. Delmaine], Lionel Pape [Captain Cyprian Streatfield], John Goldsworthy [Rupert Leigh], Dan Comfort [Harold], May McAvoy [Mary Aylmer], Robert Agnew [Dick Hammond], William Turner [Joseph Aylmer], Edward Keenan [a jockey], C.T. Elmer
The Vitagraph Company of America production; distributed by The Vitagraph Company of America [A Vitagraph Special]. / Scenario by Lucien Hubbard, from the play The Sporting Duchess by Augustus Harris, Cecil Raleigh and Henry Hamilton. Cinematography by Joe Shelderfer and Charles Davis. / © 28 February 1920 by The Vitagraph Company of America [LP14809]. Released March 1920. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The production was shot in the Vitagraph studio in Brooklyn, New York, and on-location in New Orleans, Louisiana, in Rye, New York, in Stamford, Connecticut, on Long Island, New York, and in Florida. The play was previously filmed as The Sporting Duchess (1915).
Drama.
Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.4223.
Survival status: The film is presumed lost.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 4 December 2023.
References: AFI-F1 n. F1.4223; Drew-Speaking pp. 115, 279; Weaver-Twenty p. 28 : Website-AFI; Website-ASFFDb.
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