
Successful actress Vanna Du Maurier ignores her friends' advice and overworks herself toward her goal of having her own theater. She is introduced to Henri De Greve, a millionaire who might help her, but she recognizes him to be her former husband, the father of her son, Teddy, and a thoroughgoing cad, and therefore refuses to have anything to do with him.


In the shimmering, often cruel twilight of the silent era, few films captured the intersection of female ambition and the biological clock with the surgical precision of Vanity's Price. Released in 1924, this Paul Bern-scripted melodrama serves as a grotesque yet fascinating mirror to the era's preoccupation with r...

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Roy William Neill

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" In the shimmering, often cruel twilight of the silent era, few films captured the intersection of female ambition and the biological clock with the surgical precision of Vanity's Price. Released in 1924, this Paul Bern-scripted melodrama serves as a grotesque yet fascinating mirror to the era's preoccupation with rejuvenation—a theme that permeated the cultural zeitgeist following the horrors of the Great War. We find ourselves staring into the weary, yet defiant eyes of Vanna Du Maurier, po..."

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