{{short description|1926 film}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = Corporal Kate | image = Poster for Corporal Kate (1926).jpg | caption = [[Film poster|Lobby card]] | director = [[Paul Sloane (director)|Paul Sloane]] | producer = [[C. Gardner Sullivan]] | writer = Albert Shelby Le Vino<br>John Krafft(titles) | based_on = an original story by [[Zelda Sears]] and [[Marion Orth]] | starring = [[Vera Reynolds]]<br>[[Julia Faye]] | music = | cinematography = [[Henry Cronjager]] | editing = | studio = De Mille Pictures Corp. | distributor = [[Producers Distributing Corporation]] | released = {{Film date|1926|12|06}} | runtime = 1hr. 20mins; 8 [[film reel|reels]] | country = United States | language = [[Silent film|Silent]] (English [[intertitle]]s) }} '''''Corporal Kate''''' is a 1926 American [[silent film|silent]] [[romantic comedy film]] directed by [[Paul Sloane (director)|Paul Sloane]] and starring [[Vera Reynolds]] and [[Julia Faye]].<ref>[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/C/CorporalKate1926.html Progressive Silent Film List: ''Corporal Kate''] at silentera.com, 2019. Retrieved: June 30, 2019.</ref> The film was produced by [[C. Gardner Sullivan]], with production at De Mille Pictures Corp., and released by [[Producers Distributing Corporation]].<ref>[http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=3440 "Detail view: 'Corporal Kate'."] ''The AFI Catalog of Feature Films'', 2019. Retrieved: June 30, 2019.</ref>{{TOC limit|limit=2}}
==Plot== In [[World War I]], Brooklyn manicurists Kate Jones and Becky Finkelstein, work up a song-and-dance act that they intend to take overseas to entertain the troops. Through the influence of a friend, the girls are assigned to the [[Western Front (World War I)|French front]]. Both girls fall in love with Jackson Clarke, a rich playboy, who is in the [[American Expeditionary Forces]], along with Williams, his valet. Evelyn, a friend of Jackson's, also goes to France as a Red Cross nurse, Jackson falls for Kate and is jealous of Evelyn, but, unknown to any of them, Evelyn loves an American aviator. When the Germans advance, Becky is killed, dying in Jackson's arms. Kate loses her arm in a selfless and heroic action, and Jackson, still greatly in love with her, proposes that they spend the rest of their lives together.
[[File:Corporal Kate (SAYRE 14351).jpg|thumb|200px|right|Still with Vera Reynolds and Kenneth Thomson]]
==Cast== {{div col}} * [[Vera Reynolds]] as Kate Jones * [[Kenneth Thomson (actor)|Kenneth Thomson]] as Jackson Clarke (credited as Kenneth Thompson) * [[Julia Faye]] as Becky Finkelstein * [[Majel Coleman]] as Evelyn Page * [[Harry Allen (actor)|Harry Allen]] as Williams, Clarke's Valet * [[Walter Tennyson]] as Captain Sir Howard Wellington * [[Fred Kelsey]] as Unsympathetic Sergeant (uncredited) * Scott Seaton as Colonel (uncredited) * [[Harry Semels]] as Doughboy (uncredited) {{div col end}}
==Production== Although not directly an [[aviation]] film, ''Corporal Kate'' featured a number of stunt pilots, including [[Frank Clarke (pilot)|Frank Clarke]] and Leo Nomis flying a [[Standard E-1|Standard L 6]] and [[Thomas-Morse S-4|Thomas-Morse]] aircraft.<ref>Farmer 1984, p. 300.</ref> {{#tag:ref|For Cecil B. DeMille, ''Corporal Kate'' was, in part, a showcase for Julia Faye, DeMille's longtime "secret" girlfriend.<ref name="All">Erickson, Hal. [https://www.allmovie.com/movie/v87869 "Review: 'Corporal Kate'."] ''allmovie.com'', 2019. Retrieved: June 30, 2019.</ref>|group=N}}
==Reception== Film reviewer Hal Erickson, in his review of ''Corporal Kate'', noted, the girls "...encounter all manner of merry misadventures. Things get serious, however, when both Kate and Becky fall in love with the same doughboy, Private Jackson (Kenneth Thompson). This [[Love triangle|romantic triangle]] is rather bluntly resolved when tragedy strikes on the battlefield."<ref name="All"/> However, while the depiction of the relationship between the two women in a war zone is to be commended, modern viewers may be less comfortable with the many scenes featuring overt [[Sexual harassment in the military|sexual harassment]] by the male lead.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://moviessilently.com/2016/05/15/corporal-kate-1926-a-silent-film-review/ |title=''Corporal Kate'' (1926) a Silent Film Review |last=Kramer |first=Fritzi |date=15 May 2016 |publisher=Movies Silently |access-date=25 December 2023}}</ref>
==Preservation== ''Corporal Kate'' is preserved in the [[Library of Congress]] collection and [[UCLA Film and Television Archive]].<ref>''Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress'', 1978, p. 35.</ref><ref>[http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.2586/default.html "Catalog: 'Corporal Kate'."] ''The Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog'', 2019. Retrieved: June 30, 2019.</ref>
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===Bibliography=== {{Refbegin}} * ''Catalog of Holdings, The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress''. Los Angeles, California: American Film Institute, 1978. {{ISBN|978-0-8018-5315-9}}. * Farmer, James H. ''Celluloid Wings: The Impact of Movies on Aviation'' (1st ed.). Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania: TAB Books 1984. {{ISBN| 978-0-83062-374-7}}. {{Refend}}
==External links== {{commons category|Corporal Kate}} * {{IMDb title|0016743}} * [http://www.grapevinevideo.com/corporal-kate.html DVD Grapevine]
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