Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers - The Song of Love
Frances Marion is best known as a screenwriter instrumental in shaping Mary Pickford's onscreen persona during the silent era and later as a winner of two Academy Awards. THE SONG OF LOVE is one of two films she also directed, in this case sharing credit with Chester Franklin. Norma Talmadge, who also produced the film, stars as a dancing girl in a Hollywood fantasy Arabian desert who falls for a dashing French spy, then must rescue him when he is kidnapped. This version was mastered from a German release print (with original color tinting and moderate nitrate decomposition) which ends on a much darker note than prints circulated in the U.S. market.
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