When Love Grows Cold
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Directed byHarry O. Hoyt
Written byHarry O. Hoyt (continuity)
Based on"When Love Grows Cold"
by Laura Jean Libbey
Produced byRobertson-Cole
StarringNatacha Rambova
Clive Brook
CinematographyWilliam Miller
Production
company
Robertson-Cole Pictures Corporation
Distributed byFilm Booking Offices of America
Release date
  • January 31, 1926 (1926-01-31)
Running time
7 reels
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

When Love Grows Cold is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by Harry O. Hoyt, and starring Clive Brook and Natacha Rambova in her only screen starring performance. Rambova was chiefly famous for being the wife of Rudolph Valentino.[1] The film was originally titled Do Clothes Make the Woman? But in view of Valentino's recent divorce from Rambova, the distributor took the opportunity to bill her as 'Mrs Valentino' and changed the title to When Love Grows Cold. She was mortally offended and never worked in film again.

Plot

As described in a film magazine review,[2] Margaret Benson gives up her stage career to marry Jerry Benson, a dreamer who fails to put over his plans when he gets his chance before a mammoth oil company board. The wife, however, goes before the board and gets the plans approved. Wealth comes to the family and Jerry becomes a company official. Gloria Trevor becomes a tool of William Graves, president of the firm, in a plot to break up the Benson home. Graves covets Margaret. He ruins Jerry in the stock market. In the end the plot fails and Margaret and Jerry are reunited.

Cast

Preservation

With no prints of When Love Grows Cold located in any film archives,[3] it is a lost film. Only bit fragments and a trailer survive from this film.[4][5]

References

  1. ↑ The AFI Catalog of Feature films: When Love Grows Cold
  2. ↑ Campbell, William (February 13, 1926), "Pre-Release Review of Features: When Love Grows Cold", Motion Picture News, New York City, New York: Motion Picture News, Inc., 33 (6): 808, retrieved February 8, 2023 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  3. ↑ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: When Love Grows Cold
  4. ↑ IMDb.com
  5. ↑ Progressive Silent Film List: When Love Grows Cold at silentera.com
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