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The One Woman Idea
(1929) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels / 6111 feet / 65 minutes
Directed by Berthold Viertel
Cast: Rod La Rocque [Prince Ahmed], Marceline Day [Lady Alicia Douglas / Alizar, a half-caste dancer], Shirley Dorman [woman boat passenger], Sharon Lynn [woman boat passenger], Sally Phipps [woman boat passenger], Ivan Lebedeff [Hosain (Dheyyid Mizra)], Douglas Gilmore [Lord Douglas], Gino Corrado [Bordinas], Joseph W. Girard [steamship captain], Arnold Lucy [Ali], Frances Rosay [Zuleide, Alizar’s mother], Jamiel Hassen [bodyguard], Tom Tamarez [bodyguard], Coy Watson (Coy Watson Jr.) [Buttons]
Fox Film Corporation production; distributed by Fox Film Corporation. / Scenario by Marion Orth, from the short story “The One-Woman Idea” by Alan Williams. Production supervision by Philip Klein. Assistant director, Horace Hough. Cinematography by L. William O’Connell. Music score by Arthur Kay. / © 6 June 1929 by Fox Film Corporation [LP442]. Released 2 June 1929. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. Western Electric Movietone sound-on-film synchronized sound system. / The film was released in the USA in a silent version (at 6106 feet) by Fox Film Corporation. The story was subsequently filmed as The One Woman Idea by Fox Film Corporation (starring Charles Farrell and Mary Duncan) in the early 1930s. / Silent film, with synchronized music and sound effects.
Drama: Romance.
Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F2 n. F2.4023.
Survival status: The film is presumed lost.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 4 August 2024.
References: AFI-F2 n. F2.4023 : ClasIm-301 p. 47 : Website-AFI; Website-ASFFDb; Website-IMDb.
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