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Marion
Also known as A Daughter’s Diplomacy in the USA
(1912) Italy
B&W : One reel
Directed by (unknown)
Cast: Florence Bertini
Società Italiana Cines production; distributed by Società Italiana Cines. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was released in the USA as A Daughter’s Diplomacy by Kleine Optical Company on 23 July 1912.
Comedy-Drama.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? The whole trouble starts at the picnic given by the Martins in honor of the birthday of their daughter Marion. Everybody is having a splendid time until Mrs. Martin discovers her husband paying too much attention to a fascinating Countess. All her attempts to smile and conquer the “Green-Eyed Monster” are thenceforth unsuccessful. On the return journey by motor, the husband becomes more assiduous than ever in his attentions, and consequently when they arrive home the wife can no longer control her anger and an open quarrel breaks out in the erstwhile happy household. After the evening meal, Marion overhears a conversation between her parents in which they finally agree to separate. Retiring to her room, she thinks the matter over, and decides upon a plan of reconciliation. She again returns to the parlor and makes herself as disagreeable as possible. Now Marion is the very idol of her parents’ existence. When they see her in such a mood, they become alarmed and try in every way to please her and thus her plan proves successful, for they forget their own difficulty. She then leaves them in a reconciliatory attitude and brings the countess to see the result of her effort. “Isn’t that a pretty picture” she exclaims, pointing through the door-way, and then adds, “now countess, you may go.”
Reviews: [The Moving Picture World, 3 August 1912, page ?] A sophisticated picture of married life, in which a daughter’s diplomacy is the means of reuniting her father and mother who were on the point of a separation. It features Miss Florence Bertini in the leading role and is very well acted throughout. The picture is not at all romantic and not wholly fortunate in its atmosphere; it is rather continental and perhaps it won’t be wholly understood by American audiences. It seems to us too bad that a girl, with her hair down, should be so old in wisdom as Miss Marion is shown to be; nor on the other hand does a husband’s infidelity seem to us a thing to even repent of with merry laughter; it was hardly a peccadillo. The Cines people are making better scenes than a few months ago; they are no longer cheap in appearance. The photography is excellent.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: (unknown) [Italy]; Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 4 November 2022.
References: Pratt-Spellbound p. ? : Website-IMDb.
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