Diamond Love Woman is a 1927 black-and-white American black-and-white melodrama directed by Edmund Goulding and starring Pauline Starke, Owen Moore and Lionel Barrymore.
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Plot
Mavis Ray (Pauline Starke) is a young debutant who lives with his mother and with the support of Hugo Harlan (Lionel Barrymore), whom he calls his uncle. He fell in love with Jerry Croker-Kelley's socialite (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.), and went with him to meet his family against Harlan's wishes. Mavis and Jerry want to elope if they can not get Harlan's permission to marry. At Jerry's house, Mavis finds himself uncomfortable with Jerry's family, who live only with their wealth. When Harlan came to the house, he took Jerry aside and told him something that caused him to leave his relationship with Mavis.
Flogged, Mavis then begins to fall because of his driver, Patrick Michael Regan (Owen Moore). She starts to fall in love with him as well, no matter when Mavis reveals that Harlan is not her uncle, but her lover, and that the woman he calls her mother is actually a hired help. However, Patrick's sister (Dorothy Phillips), felt as if this relationship would harm Patrick. She could not manage to talk to Mavis, dying soon after giving birth. Not long after, Patrick had a car accident.
While Patrick recovered from his injuries, Mavis took care of his children. However, he considers himself unfit for him. After breaking his relationship with Harlan, Mavis escapes. A few months later, Mavis, who now works as a nurse, meets Patrick, who becomes a taxi driver. Both decided to try to establish a relationship.
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Cast
- Pauline Starke as Mavis Ray
- Owen Moore as Patrick Michael Regan
- Lionel Barrymore as Hugo Harlan
- Cissy Fitzgerald as Mrs Ray
- Gwen Lee as Roberta Klein
- Douglas Fairbanks Jr. as Jerry Croker-Kelley
- Pauline Neff as Mrs. Croker-Kelley
- Constance Howard as Dorothy Croker-Kelley
- George Cooper as Snub Flaherty
- Dorothy Phillips as Mrs. Flaherty
Production
Love Diamond Woman directed by Edmund Goulding. Greta Garbo, the new movie Flesh and the Devil (1927), was approached to play the lead role. However, when he was in a contract conflict with Metro Goldwyn Meyer at the time, he refused and threatened to return to Sweden. Pauline Starke was chosen to succeed him.
According to a review on Variety , this movie looks as if it has a budget above average.
Themes
The historian Lea Jacobs notes that Diamond Love Women has little to do with sexual customs, as expected, but more with the power gained from sexuality and wealth. He notes that when Mavis dealt with Croker-Kelleys, his "fierce" fashion dress caused him to be looked down upon; However, with a lower class character like Regan, her dress becomes a symbol of strength.
Release and acceptance
Women Love Diamonds was released on February 12, 1927. It was a commercial failure, earning $ 30,000 less than its budget.
Reviews in Variety praise sets, cinematography and acting; However, reviewers found the plot weakened by the film's "careful handling" of the subject and noted that the star "failed to attract enough sympathy". The review also incorrectly identifies the film as Wanting Diamonds , which, according to Jacobs, suggests that there may be more than one print. Film critic, David Shipman, writes that Mavis at first appeared as someone admired by women and men wanted to have him, but later became more sympathetic after experiencing moral enlightenment and becoming a nurse.
Jacobs describes Women Love Diamonds as perhaps the most bizarre experimentation in dramatizing the genre of gold diggers; he described it as the work of German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Matthew Kennedy, in his biography of Goulding, described the film as "a sad exercise around". Hal Erickson, writing for Rovi, points out that Garbo's refusal to do the film did not hurt his career at all.
References
- Foot Records
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External links
- Love Diamond Woman at IMDb
- Women Loving Diamonds in the TCM Film Database
- Synopsis in AllMovie
- From gettyimages.com: Still # 1, # 2, # 3, # 4, # 5, # 6, and # 7
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