Tarnished Reputations

{{short description|1920 film}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2020}} {{infobox film | name = Tarnished Reputations | image = Tarnished Reputations (1920) - Ad 2.jpg | caption = Advertisement using the film's working title | director = Alice Guy-Blaché | producer = | writer = Jean Durand (scenario)<br>Léonce Perret (screenplay) | starring = Dolores Cassinelli<br>Alan Roscoe<br>Georges Deneubourg | music = | cinematography = Harry D. Harde | studio = Perret Productions Inc. | distributor = Pathé Exchange | released = {{Film date|1920|3|14}} | runtime = 5 reels | country = United States | language = Silent (English intertitles) }} '''''Tarnished Reputations''''' is a 1920 American silent drama film directed by Alice Guy-Blaché (which is her last), supervised by Léonce Perret and starring Dolores Cassinelli, Alan Roscoe, and Georges Deneubourg. It is presumed to be a lost film.<ref name="SilentEra">[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/T/TarnishedReputations1920.html Progressive Silent Film List: ''Tarnished Reputations''] at silentera.com</ref>

==Plot== As described in a film magazine,<ref>{{cite journal |title=Reviews: ''Tarnished Reputations'' |journal=Exhibitors Herald |volume=10 |issue=12 |page=54 |publisher=Exhibitors Herald Company |location=New York City |date=March 20, 1920 |url=https://archive.org/details/exhibitorsherald10exhi}}</ref> Helen Sanderson (Cassinelli) has become infatuated with Robert Williams (Roscoe), a painter who has come to her small village. While painting ''The Saint Among the Lillies'' in which Helen is the model, their friendship develops into love. Helen receives a rude awakening when Robert suddenly departs, leaving only a letter to say goodbye. After the death of her aunt, Helen goes to New York to see her sweetheart after he has found fame with his painting, but finds that he has departed for Europe to paint a portrait of the Pope. In financial straits, Helen goes to a garment shop to make a living. One night she is wrongly accused of accosting a man, and is sentenced to jail for thirty days. After her release, she visits Judge Princeton (Burton) from her case. There she meets author George de Wendbourg (Deneubourg), who offers aid. He takes her home and develops her into a great actress in his play. Robert then returns from Europe and her love for him returns.

==Cast== * Dolores Cassinelli as Helen Sanderson * Alan Roscoe as Robert Williams (credited as Albert Roscoe) * Georges Deneubourg as George de Wendbourg * Ned Burton as Judge Princeton

==Production== The working title for the film was ''A Soul Adrift''.<ref name="SilentEra"/>

== Preservation == With no holdings located in archives, ''Tarnished Reputations'' is considered a lost film.<ref>{{Cite web |date= |others= |title=The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Tarnished Reputations |url=http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.9690/default.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230321012444/http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.9690/default.html |archive-date=2023-03-21 |access-date=2025-08-11 |website=memory.loc.gov}}</ref>

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==External links== {{commons category|Tarnished Reputations}} *{{IMDb title|0010721}}

Category:1920 films Category:American silent feature films Category:Films directed by Herbert Blaché Category:American black-and-white films Category:Pathé Exchange films Category:1920 lost films Category:1920 drama films Category:1920 American films Category:1920 English-language films Category:English-language drama films Category:Lost American silent drama films