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The Only Thing

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MGM silent. 62 minutes. US release: 11/22/25. Not available on VHS or DVD.

Cast: Eleanor Boardman, Conrad Nagel, Edward Connelly, Arthur Edmund Carew, Louis Payne, Vera Lewis, Carrie Clarke Ward, Constance Wylie, Dale Fuller, Ned Sparks, David Mir, Mario Carillo, Michael Pleschkoff, Buddy Smith, Joan Crawford (as "Young Lady Catherine"), Frank Braidwood, Derke Glynne, Mary Hawes.

Credits:  Based on the novel by Elinor Glyn. Story: Elinor Glyn (and the film "made under Miss Glyn's personal supervision"). Director: Jack Conway. Camera: Chester Lyons. Editor: Aubrey Scotto. Costumes: David Mir. Sets: Richard Day, Cedric Gibbon.

 

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Critics' Reviews:

 

Regina Cannon in the New York Evening Graphic (1925):

    Elinor Glyn's latest comic opera is a nightmare. It must have been inspired by a midnight reading of Dante's Inferno, Three Weeks, Graustark and Scaramouche. It was written, titled, supervised, and super-directed by the Madame herself. You know the answer. Of course it deals with kings, princesses, and dukes, yachts, palaces and revolutions--anything less than royalty Miss Glyn would consider a waste of time....We'd like to tell you what the story is all about, but we only saw the picture through once. We may know more later, because we're sending a complimentary ticket to a girl against whom we have a grudge.

 

Norbert Lusk in the New York Morning Telegraph (1925):

    ...Entertaining from start to finish. Its pomp and splendor will please those who are easily pleased; its deft touches of characterization, its cynical subtitles and excellent acting will challenge the more critical.

 

Variety (1925):

     In directing, Conway did not particularly distinguish himself, but it is easy to assume that he may have been working under a handicap.

 

 


 

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