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The Price of Youth, the 1922 Ben F. Wilson silent New York City romantic melodrama ("A thrilling story of a girl's adventure in a Great City."; "Personally supervised by Ben Wilson"; about an orphaned young lady from the South, who goes to New York City to become a singer; she knows her mother ran away from her father with a man who was going to make a star of her, but he used her and betrayed her, and amazingly, the young lady meets the very same man, but luckily, her boyfriend, who amazingly is the son of the man comes to visit her from the South and saves her from his father and they get married!) starring Neva Gerber, Spottiswoode Aitken, Ashton Dearholt, Charles King, and Joseph W. Girard. Note that the actor named Ashton Dearholt is an interesting footnote in movie history! He made 60 movies between 1916 and 1927, starring in some, but they are almost all forgettable. Dearholt wanted to become a producer in the movie business, and he kept trying to get Burroughs to let him make a Tarzan movie. Burroughs resisted, and in 1932, he signed a deal with MGM for a major Tarzan movie, and that seemed to end Dearholt's chance of making a deal, but in 1934, Dearholt found a beautiful young blonde that he left his wife for, and Dearholt's wife found consolation in the arms of Burroughs, who married her, and took custody of Dearholt's two children! Perhaps out of guilt, Burroughs signed a deal for Dearholt to make a Tarzan movie. Burroughs' sole involvement in the movie was putting up money and selling the rights, and Dearholt went to Guatemala (on the "Ashton-Dearholt Expedition"!), but the movie had all sorts of problems (Dearholt himself played the villain, and his new young girlfriend played the lead actress), and after it was partly completed, they quit filming and left Guatemala. They returned to the U.S. and managed to create a completed film from the footage they had shot, although it was far different from the original script. The movie did surprisingly well at first, but then MGM threatened theaters that showed the movie, and it got terrible U.S. distribution, although it did well overseas. Ultimately, none of the actors or crew were paid, and Dearholt never made another movie. But he remained good friends with Burroughs until his sudden death in 1942!
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