Red Hot Romance

1922 film by Victor Fleming

Red Hot Romance

Makeup test during production. Writers Emerson and Loos at left, director Fleming seated, and Sydney and Collins at right.[1]

Directed by| Victor Fleming
Written by| John Emerson
Anita Loos
Produced by| John Emerson
Anita Loos
Starring| Basil Sydney
Cinematography| Oliver T. Marsh
Ernest G. Palmer
Distributed by| Associated First National

Release date

* February 13, 1922 (1922-02-13)

Running time

| 60 minutes
Country| United States
Language| Silent (English intertitles)

Red Hot Romance is a 1922 American silent comedy film directed by Victor Fleming. A fragmentary print survives in the Library of Congress.[2][3]

## Plot

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As described in a film magazine,[4] young American Rowland Stone (Sydney) receives $50 per week from the estate of his rich uncle until he reaches age 25, at which time, according to the will, he is to hear of further bequests. He is in love with Anna Mae (Collins), the daughter of an old Virginia family, the head of which, Colonel Cassius Byrd (Connelly), has been waiting 40 years for a diplomatic post. The young man pawns all of his furniture to get her presents. When the day of his big inheritance arrives, Rowland discovers that he is to receive $25 per week and must serve one year as an insurance agent to prove his worth before he can secure his fortune. His sweetheart has gone with her father to the nation of Bunkonia in South America, so the new insurance agent sees there some fertile fields and sets sail with his valet Thomas (Wilson). In Bunkonia he meets the villainous Jim Conwell (Atwell), the best families, King Caramba XIII (Lalor) and his cabinet, and he insures everyone in sight. Jim knows the terms of the will and plots a revolution, knowing that the insured king and cabinet will be the first to die and thus ruin the insurance agent. The Colonel, now a counsel, is imprisoned by the plotters and Jim kidnaps Anna Mae, compelling Rowland to save the king, cabinet, sweetheart, and counsel for the sake of insurance, love, and country. During the revolution Rowland is in the difficult position of being unable to kill any of the plotters since they carry policies with his insurance companies. In spite of this handicap, they are all saved with the arrival of the U.S. Marines.

## Cast

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* Basil Sydney as Rowland Stone
* Henry Warwick as Lord Howe-Greene
* Frank Lalor as King Caramba XIII
* Carl Stockdale as General De Castanet
* Olive Valerie as Madame Puloff de Plotz
* Edward Connelly as Colonel Cassius Byrd
* May Collins as Anna Mae Byrd
* Roy Atwell as Jim Conwell
* Tom Wilson as Thomas Snow
* Lillian Leighton as Mammy
* Snitz Edwards as Signor Frijole

## Production

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An early working title for the film was Wife Insurance.[5] The full scenario for the film was published in Emerson's and Loos's book Breaking Into the Movies (1921).[1]

## References

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1. ^ a b Emerson, John; Loos, Anita (1921). Breaking into the Movies. Philadelphia: G.W. Jacobs. OL 7253927M.
2. ^ The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30 by The American Film Institute, c. 1971
3. ^ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Red Hot Romance
4. ^ "Reviews: Red Hot Romance". Exhibitors Herald. 14 (7). New York City: Exhibitors Herald Company: 64. February 11, 1922.
5. ^ "Screen People and Plays" (PDF). New York Times. April 3, 1921. Retrieved October 30, 2013.

## External links

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* Red Hot Romance at IMDb
* Advert for the film

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Films directed by Victor Fleming

* When the Clouds Roll By (1919)
* The Mollycoddle (1920)
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* Woman's Place (1921)
* The Lane That Had No Turning (1922)
* Red Hot Romance (1922)
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* Law of the Lawless (1923)
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* Lord Jim (1925)
* The Blind Goddess (1926)
* Mantrap (1926)
* The Way of All Flesh (1927)
* Hula (1927)
* The Rough Riders (1927)
* Abie's Irish Rose (1928)
* The Awakening (1928)
* Wolf Song (1929)
* The Virginian (1929)
* Common Clay (1930)
* Renegades (1930)
* Around the World in 80 Minutes with Douglas Fairbanks (1931)
* The Wet Parade (1932)
* Red Dust (1932)
* The White Sister (1933)
* Bombshell (1933)
* Treasure Island (1934)
* Reckless (1935)
* The Farmer Takes a Wife (1935)
* Captains Courageous (1937)
* Test Pilot (1938)
* The Wizard of Oz (1939)
* Gone with the Wind (1939)
* Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
* Tortilla Flat (1942)
* A Guy Named Joe (1943)
* Adventure (1946)
* Joan of Arc (1948)

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Anita Loos

Novels|

* Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Intimate Diary of A Professional Lady. (1926)
* But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1928)

Plays|

* Happy Birthday (1946)
* Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1949)
* Gigi (1951)
* Chéri (1959)

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/I signals that Loos also wrote the
intertitles; some works are co-written|

| Writer
(screenplay/
scenario)|

* My Baby (1912)
* The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912)
* The New York Hat (1912)
* The Mistake (1913)
* The Telephone Girl and the Lady (1913)
* Billy's Rival (1914)
* The Girl in the Shack (1914)
* The Hunchback (1914)
* The Sisters (1914/I)
* The Americano (1916/I)
* Stranded (1916/I)
* The Half-Breed (1916)
* His Picture in the Papers (1916)
* The Children Pay (1916)
* A Daughter of the Poor (1917)
* Reaching for the Moon (1917)
* Wild and Woolly (1917)
* Let's Get a Divorce (1918)
* The Isle of Conquest (1919)
* A Virtuous Vamp (1919)
* Mama's Affair (1921)
* Red Hot Romance (1922)
* Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1928)
* The Struggle (1931)
* Red-Headed Woman (1932)
* The Barbarian (1933)
* Hold Your Man (1933)
* The Girl from Missouri (1934; original)
* Riffraff (1936)
* San Francisco (1936)
* Saratoga (1937)
* The Women (1939)
* Susan and God (1940)
* Blossoms in the Dust (1941)
* When Ladies Meet (1941)
* The Lost House (1915)
* They Met in Bombay (1941)
* I Married an Angel (1942)
* Producers' Showcase "Happy Birthday" (1956)

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Story|

* Nell's Eugenic Wedding (1914)
* American Aristocracy (1916)
* Woman's Place (1921)
* Midnight Mary (1933)
* Saratoga (1937)

Novel|

* Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1928)
* Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
* Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1955)

Titles|

* The Americano (1916)
* Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916)
* Macbeth (1916)
* The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (1916)
* Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1928)

Other|

* The Branded Woman (1920; adaptation)
* Red Hot Romance (1922; executive producer)
* Blondie of the Follies (1932; dialogue)
* Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953; play)

Uncredited|

* The Cat and the Fiddle (1934)
* The Cowboy and the Lady (1938)
* Another Thin Man (1939)
* Babes in Arms (1939)
* Strange Cargo (1940)
* A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)

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