The Desired Woman

1927 film by Michael Curtiz

August 27, 1927 (1927-08-27)

Running time

70 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageSilent (English intertitles)

The Desired Woman is a 1927 American silent drama film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Irene Rich, William Russell and William Collier Jr.^[1]^[2] It is now considered to be lost.^[3]^[4] It was produced and distributed by Warner Bros. The film was based on a story by Darryl F. Zanuck, who was credited under the pseudonym Mark Canfield.

Synopsis

Lady Diana marries Captain Maxwell of the British Army in England. However, when her husband is posted to a remote post in the Sahara Desert she finds her life increasingly difficult. He becomes insanely jealous and threatens anyone who comes near his wife. He posts two subordinates on dangerous missions. Wearied by her experiences, she agrees to elope with one of them.

Cast

Irene Rich as Diana Maxwell
William Russell as Captain Maxwell
William Collier Jr. as Lieutenant Larry Trent
Douglas Gerrard as Fitzroy
Jack Ackroyd as Henery
John Miljan as Lieutenant Kellogg
Richard Tucker as Sir Sydney Vincent

References

^ The Desired Woman at silentera.com
^ The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30 by The American Film Institute, (1971)
^ The Library of Congress/FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:The Desired Woman
^ The Desired Woman at Arne Andersen's Lost Film Filmes: Warner Brothers Pictures

Bibliography

Rode, Alan K. Michael Curtiz: A Life in Film. University Press of Kentucky, 2017.

External links

The Desired Woman at IMDb
The Desired Woman at the TCM Movie Database

Films directed by Michael Curtiz

1910s

The Last Bohemian (1912)
Today and Tomorrow (1912)
Captive Souls (1913)
My Husband's Getting Married (1913)
The Exile (1914)
The Borrowed Babies (1914)
The Princess in a Nightrobe (1914)
Prisoner of the Night (1914)
Bánk Bán (1914)
Golddigger (1914)
Seven of Spades (1916)
The Strength of the Fatherland (1916)
The Karthauzer (1916)
The Black Rainbow (1916)
The Wolf (1916)
The Medic (1916)
Mr. Doctor (1916)
Master Zoard (1917)
The Red Samson (1917)
The Last Dawn (1917)
Spring in Winter (1917)
Tartar Invasion (1917)
Secret of St. Job Forest (1917)
Nobody's Son (1917)
The Charlatan (1917)
A Penny's History (1917)
The Fishing Bell (1917)
Peace's Road (1917)
Jean the Tenant (1917)
Earth's Man (1917)
The Colonel (1918)
The Merry Widow (1918)
Magic Waltz (1918)
A skorpió I. (1918)
The Devil (1918)
Lulu (1918)
Lu, the Coquette (1918)
Júdás (1918)
The Ugly Boy (1918)
Alraune (1918)
99-es számú bérkocsi (1918)
The Sunflower Woman (1918)
Liliom (1919)
The Lady with the Black Gloves (1919)

1920s

Boccaccio (1920)
The Star of Damascus (1920)
The Scourge of God (1920)
Mrs. Tutti Frutti (1921)
Good and Evil (1921)
Mrs. Dane's Confession (1921)
Labyrinth of Horror (1921)
Sodom and Gomorrah (1922)
Young Medardus (1923)
Avalanche (1923)
Nameless (1923)
A Deadly Game (1924)
General Babka (1924)
Harun al Raschid (1924)
The Moon of Israel (1924)
Red Heels (1925)
Cab No. 13 (1926)
The Golden Butterfly (1926)
The Third Degree (1926)
A Million Bid (1927)
The Desired Woman (1927)
Good Time Charley (1927)
Tenderloin (1928)
Noah's Ark (1928)
Glad Rag Doll (1929)
Madonna of Avenue A (1929)
The Gamblers (1929)
Hearts in Exile (1929)

1930s

Mammy (1930)
Under a Texas Moon (1930)
The Matrimonial Bed (1930)
Bright Lights (1930)
A Soldier's Plaything (1930)
River's End (1930)
Demon of the Sea (1931)
God's Gift to Women (1931)
The Mad Genius (1931)
The Woman from Monte Carlo (1932)
Alias the Doctor (1932)
The Strange Love of Molly Louvain (1932)
Doctor X (1932)
The Cabin in the Cotton (1932)
20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932)
Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
The Keyhole (1933)
Private Detective 62 (1933)
Goodbye Again (1933)
The Kennel Murder Case (1933)
Female (1933)
Mandalay (1934)
Jimmy the Gent (1934)
The Key (1934)
British Agent (1934)
The Case of the Curious Bride (1935)
Black Fury (1935)
Front Page Woman (1935)
Little Big Shot (1935)
Captain Blood (1935)
The Walking Dead (1936)
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)
Stolen Holiday (1937)
Mountain Justice (1937)
Kid Galahad (1937)
The Perfect Specimen (1937)
Gold Is Where You Find It (1938)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
Four's a Crowd (1938)
Four Daughters (1938)
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
Dodge City (1939)
Daughters Courageous (1939)
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)
Four Wives (1939)

1940s

Virginia City (1940)
The Sea Hawk (1940)
Santa Fe Trail (1940)
The Sea Wolf (1941)
Dive Bomber (1941)
Captains of the Clouds (1942)
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
Casablanca (1942)
Mission to Moscow (1943)
This Is the Army (1943)
Passage to Marseille (1944)
Janie (1944)
Roughly Speaking (1945)
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Night and Day (1946)
Life with Father (1946)
The Unsuspected (1947)
Romance on the High Seas (1948)
My Dream Is Yours (1949)
Flamingo Road (1949)
The Lady Takes a Sailor (1949)

1950s

Young Man with a Horn (1950)
Bright Leaf (1950)
The Breaking Point (1950)
Force of Arms (1951)
Jim Thorpe – All-American (1951)
I'll See You in My Dreams (1951)
The Story of Will Rogers (1952)
The Jazz Singer (1952)
Trouble Along the Way (1953)
The Boy from Oklahoma (1954)
The Egyptian (1954)
White Christmas (1954)
We're No Angels (1955)
The Scarlet Hour (1956)
The Vagabond King (1956)
The Best Things in Life Are Free (1956)
The Helen Morgan Story (1957)
The Proud Rebel (1958)
King Creole (1958)
The Hangman (1959)
The Man in the Net (1959)

1960s

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1960)
A Breath of Scandal (1960)
Francis of Assisi (1961)
The Comancheros (1961)

Short films

Jön az öcsém (1919)
Sons of Liberty (1939)

Productions

Bright Lights (1935)

Darryl F. Zanuck

Producer

Old San Francisco (1927)
The First Auto (1927)
The Jazz Singer (1927)
Tenderloin (1928)
The Show of Shows (1929)
Three Faces East (1930)
The Doorway to Hell (1931)
Little Caesar (1931)
Illicit (1931)
The Public Enemy (1931)
The Man Who Played God (1932)
The Rich Are Always with Us (1932)
Doctor X (1932)
Life Begins (1932)
The Cabin in the Cotton (1932)
Three on a Match (1932)
20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932)
Parachute Jumper (1933)
42nd Street (1933)
The Working Man (1933)
Ex-Lady (1933)
The Bowery (1933)
Blood Money (1933)
Moulin Rouge (1934)
Looking for Trouble (1934)
Born to Be Bad (1934)
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back (1934)
The Mighty Barnum (1934)
Folies Bergère de Paris (1935)
Les Misérables (1935)
Cardinal Richelieu (1935)
Call of the Wild (1935)
Metropolitan (1935)
Thanks a Million (1935)
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo (1935)
Professional Soldier (1935)
The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936)
It Had to Happen (1936)
A Message to Garcia (1936)
Under Two Flags (1936)
The Road to Glory (1936)
Poor Little Rich Girl (1936)
Sing, Baby, Sing (1936)
Pigskin Parade (1936)
Seventh Heaven (1937)
Slave Ship (1937)
Wee Willie Winkie (1937)
Wake Up and Live (1937)
Thin Ice (1937)
Lancer Spy (1937)
In Old Chicago (1938)
Happy Landing (1938)
International Settlement (1938)
Kentucky Moonshine
Always Goodbye (1938)
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938)
Just Around the Corner (1938)
Little Miss Broadway (1938)
My Lucky Star (1938)
Submarine Patrol (1938)
Jesse James (1939)
Tail Spin (1939)
Wife, Husband and Friend (1939)
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939)
Rose of Washington Square (1939)
Stanley and Livingstone (1939)
The Rains Came (1939)
Hollywood Cavalcade (1939)
Swanee River (1939)
The Little Princess (1939)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Little Old New York (1940)
The Man I Married (1940)
The Return of Frank James (1940)
The Great Profile (1940)
Brigham Young (1940)
Down Argentine Way (1940)
The Mark of Zorro (1940)
Hudson's Bay (1941)
Tobacco Road (1941)
The Great American Broadcast (1941)
Blood and Sand (1941)
A Yank in the R.A.F. (1941)
How Green Was My Valley (1942)
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake (1942)
Sex Hygiene (Short) (1942)
To the Shores of Tripoli (1942)
This Above All (1942)
Thunder Birds (1942)
The Purple Heart (1944)
Wilson (1944)
Winged Victory (1944)
The Razor's Edge (1946)
Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
Fury at Furnace Creek (1948)
The Snake Pit (1948)
Pinky (1949)
Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
No Way Out (1950)
All About Eve (1950)
David and Bathsheba (1951)
People Will Talk (1951)
Viva Zapata! (1952)
The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)
The Egyptian (1954)
The View from Pompey's Head (1955)
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956)
Island in the Sun (1957)
The Sun Also Rises (1957)
The Roots of Heaven (1958)
Crack in the Mirror (1960)
Sanctuary (1961)
The Big Gamble (1961)
The Longest Day (1962)
The Chapman Report (1962)
The Visit (1964)

Writer

as Mark Canfield	The Desired Woman (1927) (story) Maybe It's Love (1930) Baby Face (1933) (story) Crack in the Mirror (1960)
as Melville Crossman	Tenderloin (story) (1928) State Street Sadie (story) (1928) Thanks a Million (story) (1935) A Yank in the R.A.F. (story) (1941) Thunder Birds (original story) (1942) China Girl (story) (1942) The Purple Heart (story) (1944)
as Gregory Rogers	Find Your Man (Rin Tin Tin story) (1924) The Lighthouse by the Sea (Rin Tin Tin story) (1924) Three Weeks in Paris (story, screenplay as Darryl Zanuck) (1925) The Midnight Taxi (story) (1928)
as self	A Broadway Butterfly (1925) Red Hot Tires (1925) Hogan's Alley (1925) The Caveman (scenario) (1926) The Little Irish Girl (adaptation) (1926) The Social Highwayman (1926) Footloose Widows (1926) Across the Pacific (adaptation) (1926) The Better 'Ole (screenplay) (1926) Tracked by the Police (Rin Tin Tin story) (1927) Old San Francisco (1927) The First Auto (story) (1927) Good Time Charley (story) (1927) Noah's Ark (story) (1928) My Man (story) (1928) Hardboiled Rose (story) (1929) Madonna of Avenue A (story) (1929) Say It with Songs (story) (1929) The Life of the Party (1930) Little Caesar (story – uncredited) (1931) The Dark Horse (story) (1932) Lady Killer (story – uncredited) (1933) Folies Bergère de Paris (contributing writer – uncredited) (1935) G Men (story) (1935) This Is My Affair (story – uncredited) (1937) Alexander's Ragtime Band (contributing writer – uncredited) (1938) The Great Profile (story – uncredited) (1940) Ten Gentlemen from West Point (1942)