The Marriage Maker

{{short description|1923 film}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = The Marriage Maker | image = The Marriage Maker 1923 lantern slide.jpg | caption = Lantern slide | director = [[William C. deMille]] | producer = [[Adolph Zukor]]<br>[[Jesse Lasky]] | writer = [[Clara Beranger]] (scenario) | based_on = {{based on|''The Faun''|[[Edward Knoblock]]}} | starring = [[Agnes Ayres]]<br>[[Charles de Rochefort]]<br>[[Mary Astor]] | cinematography = [[L. Guy Wilky]] | editing = | distributor = [[Paramount Pictures]] | released = {{film date|1923|09|23}} | runtime = 7 reels | country = United States | language = [[Silent film|Silent]] (English [[intertitle]]s) | budget = | gross = }} '''''The Marriage Maker''''' is a 1923 American [[silent film|silent]] fantasy film produced by [[Famous Players–Lasky]] and distributed by [[Paramount Pictures]]. It is based on a Broadway play, ''The Faun'', by [[Edward Knoblock]]. On stage the faun character was played by [[William Faversham]]. [[William C. deMille]] directed and his wife [[Clara Beranger]] wrote the scenario.<ref>''The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30'' published by The American Film Institute, c.1971</ref><ref name="silentera">{{cite web |url=http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/M/MarriageMaker1923.html |title=Progressive Silent Film List: ''The Marriage Maker'' |access-date=March 21, 2024 |publisher=silentera.com}}</ref><ref>[http://ibdb.com/production.php?id=6990 ''The Faun'' as produced on Broadway at Daly's Theatre, January 16 1911 to Feb. 25 1911; IBDb.com]</ref>

==Cast== *[[Agnes Ayres]] - Alexandra Vancy *[[Jack Holt (actor)|Jack Holt]] - Lord Stonbury *[[Charles de Rochefort]] - Sylvani *[[Robert Agnew]] - Cyril Overton *[[Mary Astor]] - Vivian Hope-Clarke *[[Ethel Wales]] - Mrs. Hope-Clarke *Bertram Johns - Fish *[[Leo White]] - Morris

==Preservation== With no prints of ''The Marriage Maker'' located in any film archives, it is considered a [[lost film]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20230321012510/https://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.7397/ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: ''The Marriage Maker''](Wayback Machine)</ref>

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== *{{IMDb title|0014258}} *[http://www.allmovie.com/movie/marriage-maker-v101691 allmovie/synopsis; ''The Marriage Maker'']

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