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The Isle of Conquest

1919 film

October 26, 1919 (1919-10-26) (United States)

Running time

72 mins.
60 mins. (United States)CountryUnited StatesLanguageSilent (English intertitles)

The Isle of Conquest is a 1919 American silent drama film starring Norma Talmadge and produced by Talmadge and her husband Joseph Schenck. The film is now considered lost.^[1]^[2]

Plot

Based upon a short review in a film magazine,^[3] a young woman (Talmadge) marries a wealthy scoundrel so that her mother can live in luxury. While vacationing on his yacht, she becomes shipwrecked and is cast on a desert island with a stoker (Standing) for her companion. They eventually fall in love, but are rescued just before celebrating their wilderness-witnessed nuptials. Her husband later dies, so the lovers are then able to marry.

Cast

Norma Talmadge as Ethel Harmon
Wyndham Standing as John Arnold
Charles K. Gerrard as Van Surdam
Hedda Hopper as Mrs. Harmon
Natalie Talmadge as Janis Harmon
Claire Whitney as Claire Wilson
Gareth Hughes as Jack Frazier
Joseph W. Smiley as Dr. Chase
William Bailey
Merceita Esmond

References

^ The Isle of Conquest at silentera.com
^ The Norma Talmadge Page: The Isle of Conquest, by G. de Groat, Stanford University
^ Naylor, Hazel Simpson (March 2013). "Across the Silversheet: A Review of Recent Pictures". Motion Picture Magazine. 19 (2). New York: M. P. Publishing: 74–75. Retrieved 2013-11-15.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to The Isle of Conquest.

The Isle of Conquest at IMDb
The Isle of Conquest at AllMovie
Still of director Edward Jose, the Talmadge sisters and Hedda Hopper during production(Wayback Machine)

Anita Loos

Novels

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Intimate Diary of A Professional Lady. (1926)
But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1928)

Plays

Happy Birthday (1946)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1949)
Gigi (1951)
Chéri (1959)

Film
/I signals that Loos also wrote the intertitles;
some works are co-written

Writer (screenplay/scenario)	My Baby (1912) The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912) The New York Hat (1912) The Mistake (1913) The Telephone Girl and the Lady (1913) Billy's Rival (1914) The Girl in the Shack (1914) The Hunchback (1914) The Sisters (1914/I) The Americano (1916/I) Stranded (1916/I) The Half-Breed (1916) His Picture in the Papers (1916) The Children Pay (1916) A Daughter of the Poor (1917) Reaching for the Moon (1917) Wild and Woolly (1917) Let's Get a Divorce (1918) The Isle of Conquest (1919) A Virtuous Vamp (1919) Mama's Affair (1921) Red Hot Romance (1922) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1928) The Struggle (1931) Red-Headed Woman (1932) The Barbarian (1933) Hold Your Man (1933) The Girl from Missouri (1934; original) Riffraff (1936) San Francisco (1936) Saratoga (1937) The Women (1939) Susan and God (1940) Blossoms in the Dust (1941) When Ladies Meet (1941) The Lost House (1915) They Met in Bombay (1941) I Married an Angel (1942) Producers' Showcase "Happy Birthday" (1956)
Story	Nell's Eugenic Wedding (1914) American Aristocracy (1916) Woman's Place (1921) Midnight Mary (1933) Saratoga (1937)
Novel	Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1928) Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1955)
Titles	The Americano (1916) Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916) Macbeth (1916) The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (1916) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1928)
Other	The Branded Woman (1920; adaptation) Red Hot Romance (1922; executive producer) Blondie of the Follies (1932; dialogue) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953; play)
Uncredited	The Cat and the Fiddle (1934) The Cowboy and the Lady (1938) Another Thin Man (1939) Babes in Arms (1939) Strange Cargo (1940) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)