{{short description|1922 film}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2020}} {{infobox film | name = Mixed Faces | image = | caption = | director = Rowland V. Lee | producer = | writer = Paul Schofield | story = | screenplay = | based_on = | starring = William Russell<br>Renée Adorée<br>DeWitt Jennings<br>Elizabeth Garrison<br>Charles K. French | music = | cinematography = David Abel | editing = | studio = Fox Film Corporation | distributor = Fox Film Corporation | released = {{Film date|1922|10|22}} | runtime = 5 reels | country = United States | language = Silent film<br>(English intertitles) }} '''''Mixed Faces''''' is a 1922 American silent comedy film directed by Rowland V. Lee and starring William Russell, Renée Adorée, DeWitt Jennings, Elizabeth Garrison, and Charles K. French. The film was released by Fox Film Corporation on October 22, 1922.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.afi.com/members//catalog/AbbrView.aspx?s=&Movie=10815|title=Mixed Faces|work=afi.com|accessdate=May 2, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/mixed-faces-am136206|title=Mixed Faces|work=AllMovie|accessdate=May 2, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/496751/mixed-faces|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180831072151/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/496751/Mixed-Faces/|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 31, 2018|title=Mixed Faces|work=Turner Classic Movies|access-date=May 2, 2019}}</ref>

==Plot==

As described in ''Exhibitors Herald'': {{blockquote|Judge Granger is dating with the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sayre. They are in favor of the match but the girl finds him too self centered and she longs for romance. She leaves for the city and promises to write her answer to him. Jimmy Gallop, a traveling fire extinguisher salesman from the small town named Media, who so just look like the Judge too closely that the locals cannot tell them apart. Jimmy leaves for New York and accidentally encounter the Judge's girlfriend, Mary there. She also mistakes him for the Judge and invite him to her apartment. She eventually realizes that Judge Granger has romance in his soul. During the political campaign, Jimmy Gallop is bribed by the judge's opponents to deliver an address impersonating as him while they themselves abduct the judge away. This almost damages the judge's chances of be re-elected and he is unable to convince the people of the mistake. His sweetheart also sees that he does not act the same as when he was in the apartment.{{pb}}Jimmy offers to do his part in squaring matters and appears on the platform with the judge to tell of the trick. Meanwhile he has replaced the judge's position in the girl's affections and she is convinced that it is Jimmy and not the judge that she loves. The judge transfers his affections to his waiting secretary.<ref>{{Cite news |last= |first= |url=https://archive.org/details/exhibitorstr00newy/page/1314 |title=Mixed Faces |date= |publisher= |work=Exhibitors Herald |publication-date=October 14, 1922 |pages=119 }}{{source-attribution}}</ref>}}

==Cast== *William Russell as Judge J. Woodworth Granger / Jimmy Gallop *Renée Adorée as Mary Allen Sayre *DeWitt Jennings as Murray McGuire *Elizabeth Garrison as Mrs. Sayre *Charles French as Mr. Sayre *Aileen Manning as Mrs. Molly Crutcher *Harvey Clarke as William Haskins

==Reception== The film received mixed reviews from critics. Moving Picture World gave this film a positive review, praising its story, performances of William Russell and Renée Adorée, while photography gets some criticism stating not always up to the best standard.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Kelly |first=Mary |url=https://archive.org/details/movingpicturewor58sept/page/596 |title=William Russell Doubles in Amusing Story Pictured by Fox |date= |publisher= |work=Moving Picture World |publication-date=October 14, 1922 |pages=597}}</ref> Exhibitors Herald and The Film Daily gave the negative reviews, former finding actor having simultaneously play two roles confusing and one coming in the middle of this film wouldn't know what it is all about.<ref>{{Cite news |last= |first= |url=https://archive.org/details/exhibitorsherald15exhi_0/page/n391 |title=Mildly interesting picture of political intrigue; Russell in a dual role with Renee Adoree, DeWitt Jennings and Charles French in support. A redundance of subtitles and slight story offset by good work of star |date= |publisher= |work=Exhibitors Herald |publication-date=October 28, 1922 |pages=66 }}</ref> Latter criticizing unoriginally of story regarding the combination of comedy and melodrama but that isn't sufficiently strong to make a good film and some comedy bits were being marked as too short and not important. The cast were considered fair by them.<ref>{{Cite news |last= |first= |url=https://archive.org/details/movingpicturewor58sept/page/596 |title=Russell Good in Dual Role But Story is a Bit Weak |date= |publisher= |work=The Film Daily |publication-date=October 1, 1922 |pages=18}}</ref>

==Preservation== The film is presumed lost, as no copies were known to exist.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.8081/default.html |title=American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: ''Mixed Faces'' |publisher=Library of Congress |access-date=March 23, 2025 |archive-date=March 21, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230321051736/http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.8081/default.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==See also== *List of lost films *1937 Fox vault fire

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== *{{IMDb title|0013397}}

{{Rowland V. Lee}}

Category:1922 films Category:American silent feature films Category:American black-and-white films Category:Fox Film films Category:1922 comedy films Category:1922 lost films Category:1922 American films Category:1922 English-language films Category:Lost American silent comedy films Category:English-language comedy films