The Restless Sex is a 1920

1920 in film

The year 1920 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* November 27 - The Mark of Zorro, starring Douglas Fairbanks opens.-Top grossing films :-Films released in 1920:U.S.A. unless stated*The $1,000,000 Reward...

 film starring Marion Davies

Marion Davies

Marion Davies was an American film actress. Davies is best remembered for her relationship with newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst, as her high-profile social life often obscured her professional career....

, and Ralph Kellard. It was directed by Leon D'Usseau and Robert Z. Leonard

Robert Z. Leonard

Robert Zigler Leonard was an American film director, actor, producer and screenwriter.He was born in Chicago, Illinois...

 and written by Frances Marion

Frances Marion

Frances Marion was an American journalist, author, and screenwriter often cited as the most renowned female screenwriter of the twentieth century alongside June Mathis and Anita Loos.-Career:...

. The film was based upon a novel by Robert W. Chambers

Robert W. Chambers

Robert William Chambers was an American artist and writer.-Biography:He was born in Brooklyn, New York, to William P. Chambers , a famous lawyer, and Caroline Chambers , a direct descendant of Roger Williams, the founder of Providence, Rhode Island...

. An extant film at the Library of Congress

Library of Congress

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Plot summary

Mike Jill is a restless and adventurous young woman. She is in love with Jim, her foster brother and childhood sweetheart. But now, she also finds herself attracted to art student Oswald Grismer. Jim leaves for Paris to become an author. In this period, Mike and Oswald decide to marry each other. When Jim finds out, he returns home to win Mike over.

Cast

• Marion Davies
  Marion Davies
  Marion Davies was an American film actress. Davies is best remembered for her relationship with newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst, as her high-profile social life often obscured her professional career....
  
   - Mike Jill
• Ralph Kellard - Jim Cleland
• Carlyle Blackwell
  Carlyle Blackwell
  Carlyle Blackwell was an American silent film actor and a minor director and producer.Born in Troy, Pennsylvania, he made his film debut in the 1910 Vitagraph Studios production of Uncle Tom's Cabin directed by J. Stuart Blackton. Between then and 1930, when talkies ended his acting career, he...
  
   - Oswald Grismer
• Charles Lane
  Charles Lane (actor)
  Charles Gerstle Levison , better known as Charles Lane, was an American character actor seen in many movies and TV shows, and at the time of his death may have been the oldest living professional American actor. Lane appeared in many Frank Capra films, including You Can't Take It With You , Mr...
  
   - John Cleland
• Corinne Barker - Helen Davis
• Stephen Carr - Jim as a boy
• Vivienne Osborne
  Vivienne Osborne
  Vivienne Osborne was an American stage and film actress known for her work in Broadway theater and in silent and sound films.-Career:...
  
   - Marie Cliff
• Etna Ross - Mike as a child
• Robert Vivian - Chilsmer Grismer
• Athole Shearer
  Athole Shearer
  Athole Shearer was an actress most noted as the sister of motion picture star Norma Shearer and film sound engineer Douglas Shearer....
  
   - Extra (uncredited)
• Edith Shearer - Extra (uncredited)
• Norma Shearer
  Norma Shearer
  Edith Norma Shearer was a Canadian-American actress. Shearer was one of the most popular actresses in North America from the mid-1920s through the 1930s...
  
  - Extra (uncredited)

External links

• The Restless Sex at Marion Davies fan site