Summary
Fashion Row, a 1924 silent film, weaves a tapestry of ambition, betrayal, and reinvention against the backdrop of societal upheaval. Olga Farinova, one of two Russian peasant sisters, flees the revolution’s chaos and constructs a gilded identity as a European aristocrat, ascending to stardom in the United States. Her meteoric rise is shadowed by her sister Zita, whose grounded reality contrasts sharply with Olga’s performative opulence. The narrative pivots on Olga’s calculated social climbing, her marriage to a wealthy industrialist’s son, and the venomous animosity of Kaminoff, a spurned admirer whose assassination attempt fractures the sisters’ fragile bond. As Zita is reluctantly absorbed into the husband’s family, the film interrogates the corrosive nature of illusion and the paradoxes of identity in a world where survival demands both artifice and sacrifice.
Synopsis
Two peasant sisters flee Russia during the revolution and sail to America. One, Olga Farinova (Mae Murray), masquerades as a princess, becomes a noted actress, and marries a millionaire's son. Olga repudiates her sister, Zita (Mae Murray), who has no illusions about her past life or present poverty. When Olga is shot by Kaminoff (Elmo Lincoln), a rejected suitor, Zita is adopted into the husband's family.
Director
Earle Foxe, Mae Murray, Mathilde Brundage, Freeman Wood
Alfred A. Cohn, Sada Cowan, Howard Higgin
