Painted People

{{short description|1924 film}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = Painted People | image = Painted People poster.jpg | caption = Theatrical poster | director = Clarence G. Badger | producer = Associated First National | writer = Edward J. Montagne | based_on = {{basedon|"The Swamp"|Richard Connell}} | starring = Colleen Moore | music = | cinematography = Rudolph Bergquist | editing = George McQuire | distributor = Associated First National | released = {{Film date|1924|01|28}} | runtime = 7 reels | country = United States | language = Silent (English intertitles) }} '''''Painted People''''' is a 1924 American silent comedy-drama film directed by Clarence G. Badger and starring Colleen Moore. It was produced and distributed by Associated First National Pictures.<ref>[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/P/PaintedPeople1924.html Progressive Silent Film List: ''Painted People''] at silentera.com</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20171026054435/http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=11237 The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: ''Painted People''] (Wayback)</ref>

==Plot== As described in a review of the film in a film magazine,<ref>{{cite journal |last=Smith |first=Sumner |author-link= |title=''Painted People'': Colleen Moore and Fine Cast in First National Picture |journal=The Moving Picture World |volume=66 |issue=6 |page=489 |publisher=Chalmers Publishing Co. |location=New York City |date=1924-02-09 |url=https://archive.org/details/movingpicturewor66feb/page/489/mode/1up |access-date=17 March 2021}}</ref> Ellie Byrne (Moore) and Don Lane (Lyon), chums, living in the poor section of a factory town, go away to make their fortunes. Ellie wishes to become a lady so that she can marry Preston Dutton (Striker), a society chap, and Don becoming infatuated with Stephanie Parrish (Merriam), daughter of a wealthy man. Ellie becomes a leading actress and Don the author of her first play. Ellie refuses Dutton’s suit when she learns he is after her money, and Stephanie returns Don’s engagement ring. Ellie and Don go back to the factory town disillusioned. They realize that they love each other and in reality had not bettered themselves for someone else but for each other.

==Cast== {{Cast listing| *Colleen Moore as Ellie Byrne *Ben Lyon as Don Lane *Charlotte Merriam as Stephanie Parrish *Joseph Striker as Preston Dutton *Charles Murray as Tom Byrne *Russell Simpson as Fred Lane *Mary Alden as Mrs. Byrne *Mary Carr as Mrs. Lane *Sam De Grasse as Henry Parrish *June Elvidge as Mrs. Dutton *Anna Q. Nilsson as Leslie Carter *Bull Montana as Ed Decker }}

==Preservation== With no copies of ''Painted People'' located in any film archives or collections,<ref>[http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.8137/default.html The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: ''Painted People'']</ref> it is a lost film.

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==External links== {{commons category|Painted People}} *{{IMDb title|0015209|Painted People}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Painted People}} Category:1924 films Category:1924 comedy-drama films Category:1924 lost films Category:1924 American films Category:1924 English-language films Category:American black-and-white films Category:American silent feature films Category:English-language comedy-drama films Category:Films directed by Clarence G. Badger Category:Lost American silent comedy-drama films