The Isle of Conquest

1919 film

The Isle of Conquest

Norma Talmadge and Wyndham Standing

Directed by| Edward Jose
Written by| John Emerson (scenario)
Anita Loos (scenario)
Based on| By Right of Conquest
by Arthur Hornblow, Jr.
Produced by| Joseph Schenck
Norma Talmadge
Starring| Norma Talmadge
Cinematography| David Abel
Distributed by| Select Pictures

Release date

* October 26, 1919 (1919-10-26) (United States)

Running time

| 72 mins.
60 mins. (United States)
Country| United States
Language| Silent (English intertitles)

The Isle of Conquest is a 1919 American silent drama film starring Norma Talmadge and produced by Talmadge and her husband Joseph Schenck. The film is now considered lost.[1][2]

## Plot

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Based upon a short review in a film magazine,[3] a young woman (Talmadge) marries a wealthy scoundrel so that her mother can live in luxury. While vacationing on his yacht, she becomes shipwrecked and is cast on a desert island with a stoker (Standing) for her companion. They eventually fall in love, but are rescued just before celebrating their wilderness-witnessed nuptials. Her husband later dies, so the lovers are then able to marry.

## Cast

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* Norma Talmadge as Ethel Harmon
* Wyndham Standing as John Arnold
* Charles K. Gerrard as Van Surdam
* Hedda Hopper as Mrs. Harmon
* Natalie Talmadge as Janis Harmon
* Claire Whitney as Claire Wilson
* Gareth Hughes as Jack Frazier
* Joseph W. Smiley as Dr. Chase
* William Bailey
* Merceita Esmond

## See also

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* List of lost films

## References

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1. ^ The Isle of Conquest at silentera.com
2. ^ The Norma Talmadge Page: The Isle of Conquest, by G. de Groat, Stanford University
3. ^ Naylor, Hazel Simpson (March 2013). "Across the Silversheet: A Review of Recent Pictures". Motion Picture Magazine. 19 (2). New York: M. P. Publishing: 74–75. Retrieved 2013-11-15.

## External links

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to The Isle of Conquest.

* The Isle of Conquest at IMDb
* The Isle of Conquest at AllMovie
* Still of director Edward Jose, the Talmadge sisters and Hedda Hopper during production(Wayback Machine)

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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
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* My Baby (1912)
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* 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 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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