# Vanity's Price > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Vanity's_Price > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Vanity's_Price.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanity's_Price > Source revision: 1348276576 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|1924 film}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = Vanity's Price | image = Vanity's Price lobby card 3.jpg | caption = Lobby card | director = [Roy William Neill](/source/Roy_William_Neill)
[Josef von Sternberg](/source/Josef_von_Sternberg) (''ass't director'') | producer = Gothic Productions | writer = [Paul Bern](/source/Paul_Bern) (story, scenario) | starring = [Anna Q. Nilsson](/source/Anna_Q._Nilsson) | cinematography = [Hal Mohr](/source/Hal_Mohr) | studio = Gothic Productions | distributor = [Film Booking Offices of America](/source/Film_Booking_Offices_of_America) | released = {{film date|1924|09|07}} | runtime = 60 minutes; 6 [reels](/source/reel) | country = United States | language = [Silent](/source/Silent_film) (English [intertitle](/source/intertitle)s) }} '''''Vanity's Price''''' is a 1924 American silent [drama film](/source/drama_film) directed by Roy William Neill and starring [Anna Q. Nilsson](/source/Anna_Q._Nilsson). It was produced by the Gothic Productions company and released by [FBO](/source/Film_Booking_Offices_of_America).{{cite web|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/13005-VANITYS-PRICE |title=''Vanity's Price'' |work=afi.com |access-date=April 11, 2026}}[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/V/VanitysPrice1924.html Progressive Silent Film List: ''Vanity's Price''] at silentera.com The film is notable as the feature that brought assistant director [Josef von Sternberg](/source/Josef_von_Sternberg) to the attention of critics for his handling of two sequences in the film.Sternberg, 1965 p. 197-198 ==Cast== *[Anna Q. Nilsson](/source/Anna_Q._Nilsson) as Vanna Du Maurier *[Stuart Holmes](/source/Stuart_Holmes) as Henri De Greve *[Wyndham Standing](/source/Wyndham_Standing) as Richard Dowling *[Arthur Rankin](/source/Arthur_Rankin_(actor)) as Teddy, Vanna's son *[Lucille Ricksen](/source/Lucille_Ricksen) as Sylvia, Teddy's fiancée *[Robert Bolder](/source/Robert_Bolder) as Bill Connors, Theatrical Manager *[Cissy Fitzgerald](/source/Cissy_Fitzgerald) as Mrs. Connors *[Dot Farley](/source/Dot_Farley) as Katherine, Vanna's Maid *[Charles Newton](/source/Charles_Newton_(actor)) as Butler *Rowfat-Bey Haliloff as Dancer ==Production== Von Sternberg, in his [1965 autobiography](/source/Fun_in_a_Chinese_Laundry) recalls: {{blockquote | Two incidents had been left out of the supposedly completed ''Vanity’s Price'', which the director [Roy William Neill] had not considered worthwhile doing, and the studio [FBO] head now pleaded with me to direct those short episodes.”Sternberg, 1965 p. 197-198 One of the scenes concerned a young couple on a park bench, in love. The other involved a surgery in which a woman is operated in a therapeutic procedure related to the "Monkey gland" theory of [Serge Voronoff](/source/Serge_Voronoff).}} Von Sternberg writes: {{blockquote | I gave orders to build an operating theatre with a deep pit and circular rows of seats rising steeply above the other to make it look like a [cockfight](/source/cockfight) arena. I planned to have the student physicians watch the surgery through binoculars with an occasional ironic grin.Sternberg, 1965 p. 197-198Hall, 1924: "Monkey gland"}} When the picture was previewed this sequence was praised by critics and von Sternberg was offered a position as director at FBO studios, but he turned it down to make an independently financed film, [The Salvation Hunters](/source/The_Salvation_Hunters) (1925).Sternberg, 1965 p. 198Hall, 1924Baxter, 1971 p. 25-26: see footnote "October 8, 1924" review. ==Preservation== ''Vanity's Price'' is currently [presumed lost](/source/Lost_Film).{{Cite web |date= |others= |title=The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: ''Vanity's Price'' |url=http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.10227/default.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230726195215/https://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.10227/default.html |archive-date=2023-07-26 |access-date=2026-04-11 |website=memory.loc.gov}} In February of 2021, the film was cited by the [National Film Preservation Board](/source/National_Film_Preservation_Board) on their Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films list.{{cite web |url=https://www.loc.gov/static/programs/national-film-preservation-board/documents/SFF-LostFilmsList020421.pdf |title=7,200 Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films (1912-29) |publisher=National Film Preservation Board |access-date=April 11, 2026}} == Footnotes == {{reflist}} == Sources == * [Baxter, John](/source/John_Baxter_(author)). 1971. ''The Cinema of Josef von Sternberg''. London: A. Zwemmer / New York: A. S. Barnes & Co. {{ISBN |978-0498079917}} *[Hall, Mordaunt](/source/Mordaunt_Hall). 1924. THE SCREEN: “A Rejuvenation Story.” [The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times), October 8, 1924. https://www.nytimes.com/1924/10/08/archives/the-screen-a-rejuvenation-story.html Retrieved 20 May 2024. *[Sternberg, Josef von](/source/Josef_von_Sternberg). 1988. ''Fun in a Chinese Laundry''. [Mercury House](/source/Mercury_House_(publishers)), San Francisco, California. {{ISBN | 0-916515-37-0}} (pbk.) ==External links== {{commons category|Vanity's Price (1924 film)}} *{{IMDb title|id=0015455|title=Vanity's Price}} {{Roy William Neill}} Category:1924 films Category:American silent feature films Category:Films directed by Roy William Neill Category:American black-and-white films Category:1924 drama films Category:Lost American silent drama films Category:Film Booking Offices of America films Category:1924 lost films Category:1924 American films Category:1924 English-language films --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Vanity's Price](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanity's_Price) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanity's_Price?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.