Soul Mates is a 1925

1925 in film

-Events:*November 5: The Big Parade holds its Grand Premier*December 30: premier of Ben-Hur the most expensive silent film ever made costing 4-6 million dollars -Top grossing films :...

 silent

Silent film

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, pantomime and title cards...

 drama film

Drama film

A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

 directed by Jack Conway, based on the 1911 novel The Reason Why by Elinor Glyn

Elinor Glyn

Elinor Glyn , born Elinor Sutherland, was a British novelist and scriptwriter who pioneered mass-market women's erotic fiction. She popularized the concept It...

. The movie was the second successful collaboration between Glyn and Conway.

Plot

Velma is a good little rich girl whose indomitable uncle orders her to wed Lord Tancred, a man she has never met. The same day, she becomes infatuated by a man she meets on the street, not knowing that it is Lord Tancred. When she finds out about his true identity, she becomes convinced he wants to marry her for monetary reasons. She feels betrayed and refuses to speek to him, until she makes an unusual discovery.

Cast

• Aileen Pringle
  Aileen Pringle
  Aileen Pringle was an American stage and film actress during the silent film era.-Early life:Born Aileen Bisbee into a prominent and wealthy San Francisco, California family and educated in Europe, Pringle began her acting career shortly after her 1916 marriage to Charles McKenzie Pringle, the son...
  
   as Velma
• Edmund Lowe
  Edmund Lowe
  Edmund Dantes Lowe was an American actor. His formative experience began in vaudeville and silent film. He was born in San Jose, California.-Film career:...
  
   as Lord Tancred
• Phillips Smalley
  Phillips Smalley
  Wendell Phillips Smalley was a prolific American silent film director and actor.Born in Brooklyn, New York, Smalley began his career in vaudeville and acted in more than 200 films between 1910 until his death in 1939...
  
   as Markrute
• Tony D'Algy
  Tony D'Algy
  Tony D'Algy was a Portuguese film actor. He appeared in 57 films between 1924 and 1949, including The Boob a silent comedy where Joan Crawford makes one of her first appearances....
  
   as Velma's brother
• Edythe Chapman
  Edythe Chapman
  Edythe Chapman , was an American stage and silent film actress from Rochester, New York. As early as 1898 she appeared in New York, New York in the Charity Ball. Edythe performed at the Shubert Theater in Brooklyn, New York in a production of The Light Eternal in 1907...
  
   as Tancred's mother
• Mary Hawes as Velma's maid
• Catherine Bennett as Dolly
• Lucien Littlefield
  Lucien Littlefield
  Lucien Littlefield was an American actor in the silent film era...
  
   as Stevens
• Ned Sparks
  Ned Sparks
  Ned Sparks was a Canadian character actor. Sparks was well known for his deadpan expression and deep, gravelly voice.-Early life and career:...
  
  as Tancred's chauffeur