With This Ring (1925 film)

With This Ring
With This Ring
	Lobby card
Directed by	Fred Windemere
Based on	With This Ring; by Fanny Heaslip Lea
Produced by	B.P. Schulberg
Starring	Alyce Mills ; Forrest Stanley ; Lou Tellegen
Cinematography	Conrad Wells
Production; company	B.P. Schulberg Productions
Distributed by	Preferred Pictures; Warner Bros. (UK)
Release date	September 5, 1925;
Running time	60 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

With This Ring is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Fred Windemere and starring Alyce Mills, Forrest Stanley, and Lou Tellegen.^[1] In America it was distributed by the independent outfit Preferred Pictures while its British release was originally to be handled by Vitagraph, before that company was acquired by Warner Bros. who distributed it on the British market in 1926.

Synopsis[edit]

While marooned on a desert island, Cecilie Vaughn and Donald Van Buren live as man and wife and she falls pregnant. Donald is attacked and believed dead and Cecilie is rescued. She visits his wealthy family, but they refuse to recognize her or her son and Donald's brother Rufus offers to make her his mistress. She agrees instead to a marriage proposal from the kindly family lawyer, before Donald returns and they are reunited.

Cast[edit]

Alyce Mills as Cecilie Vaughn
Forrest Stanley as John Wendell
Lou Tellegen as Rufus Van Buren
Donald Keith as Donald Van Buren
Dick Sutherland as The Portuguese
Martha Mattox as Luella Van Buren
Joan Standing as Cecilie's maid
Eulalie Jensen as Tabitha Van Buren

References[edit]

^ Connelly p. 435

Bibliography[edit]

Connelly, Robert B. The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2. December Press, 1998.
Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.