CLARA  IN 1931: “NO LIMIT”, “KICK IN”, AND THE GOODBYE TO PARAMOUNT  by Jeffrey E. Ford Personally and professionally, 1931 was probably the nadir of Clara Bow’s life. Not even her earliest days as a working actress – an extra girl confined in a succession of cheap studio pictures — could

PRESERVATION STATUS:  35 mm  restored thanks to the efforts of “Baby Peggy”. UPDATE 9/8/98:  Has been screened on the east coast. MoMA has a print with English Titles. Film is at The UCLA film archive. Principal Pictures. Production date:  Spring 1924.  Released October 12, 1924. Silent. b&w.; 35mm. 6 reels, 5,620

PRESERVATION STATUS: An archival Australian safety print (missing 2 reels) exists at the Library of Congress. No copyright exists. B.F.Zeidman. Production date:  late 1923-early 1924.  Distributed by Principal Pictures.  Released February 29, 1924. Silent; b&w.; 35mm. 6 reels. Directed by William Beaudine. Titles: Harvey Thew. Adaptation: Eve Unsell. Story: Caleb

PRESERVATION STATUS: REPORTEDLY NEWLY PRESERVED 35mm Complete Title: Poisoned paradise : the forbidden story of Monte Carlo / Preferred Pictures ; presented by B.P. Schulberg ;   Production date:  late 1923.  Release date:  February 29, 1924.  director, Louis Gasnier ; scenario, Waldemar Young. Publisher: 1924. Notes: Silent feature. Source: Poisoned paradise /

PRESERVATION STATUS: Restored 35mm. Located at Eastman House. A 16mm print of this is also located at The New York Public Library.Frank Lloyd Productions. Distributed by First National Pictures.  Production dates:  October 1923.   Released: December 29, 1924 (San Francisco premiere)  General  release Jan 1924; copyright: December 12, 1923 LP19700.) Silent

PRESERVATION STATUS:  LostB.P. Schulberg Productions. Distributed by: Preferred Pictures.  Production dates:  August-September 1923.   (Newark, N.J., showing: released December 11, 1923.  Copyright: November 21, 1923; LP19631). Silent; b&w.; 35mm. 8reels, 7,500 ft. Presented by B.P. Schulberg. Directed by: Louis Gasnier. Adapted by: Olga Printzlau. Photographed by: Karl Struss. Cast: Ethel Shannon

PRESERVATION STATUS:  LostFilm Guild. Distributed by: W.W.Hodkinson Corp.  Production date:  June/July 1923, Pyramid Studios, NYC.  Released: January 7, 1924. Silent; b&w.35mm.; 6 reels, 5,800 ft. Directed by: Frank Tuttle. Scenario: James Ashmore Creelman. Photographed by: Fred Waller, Jr. Set Design: Junius Crovins. Cast: Glenn Hunter (“Kid” Hart), Helenka Adamowska (Annie

PRESERVATION STATUS: LostDaniel Carson Goodman Corp. Distributed by Equity Pictures. Production dates:  Spring-Summer 1923, New York City.  Released September 15, 1923 (copyright: August 14, 1923; LP19306). Silent; b&w.; 35mm. 7 reels, 6,782 ft. Production-Story-Adaptation: Daniel Carson Goodman. Directed by: Kenneth Webb. Cast: Mildred Harris (Susie La Motte), Charles Emmett Mack

PRESERVATION STATUS: An incomplete 35mm print exists at The Library of Congress.Cosmopolitan Productions. Distributed by: Goldwyn Distributing Corp. ca April 15, 1923.  Production date: late 1922-January 1923.  Filming took place in NYC and Monte Carlo. New York premiere:  March 31, 1923.  General release:  September 2, 1923.  Copyright: May 21, 1923;

PRESERVATION STATUS: Exists at The UCLA Film ArchiveWhaling Film Corporation. Distributed by: W.W. Hodkinson Corp. Production date: Summer 1922 (New Bedford Mass).   Providence, Rhode Island, premiere:  November 1922, General  release: March 4, 1923. Silent; b&w.; 35mm. 12 reels. (Also 9 reels, 8,900 ft) Presented by: Elmer Clifton. Directed by: Elmer Clifton.