A Virtuous Vamp

1919 film by Sidney Franklin, David Kirkland

November 16, 1919 (1919-11-16)

Running time

5 reelsCountryUnited StatesLanguageSilent (English intertitles)

A Virtuous Vamp is a 1919 American silent comedy film produced by and starring Constance Talmadge that was directed by David Kirkland and Sidney Franklin. It was written by Anita Loos and John Emerson based on the 1909 play The Bachelor by Clyde Fitch.^[1]

On December 18, 2013, the Library of Congress announced that this film had been selected for the National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".^[2]^[3]

Cast

Constance Talmadge as Gwendolyn Armitage/Nellie Jones
Belle Daube as Mrs. Armitage
Jack Kane as Edward Cecil Armitage
Conway Tearle as James Crowninshield
Jeanette Horton as Katherine Crowninshield
Margaret Linden as Minerva Crowninshield
Wallace McCutcheon Jr. as Kirby
Ned Sparks as Mr. Bell
William Eville as Mr. Hicks
William Gaunt as Mr. Davis
Gilda Gray in Bit Part

References

^ IMDB entry
^ "Library of Congress announces 2013 National Film Registry selections". Washington Post (Press release). December 18, 2013. Retrieved December 18, 2013.
^ "Complete National Film Registry Listing". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-05-14.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to A Virtuous Vamp.

A Virtuous Vamp essay by Jennifer Ann Redmond at National Film Registry
A Virtuous Vamp at IMDb
Progressive Silent Film List: A Virtuous Vamp at silentera.com

Anita Loos

Novels

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Intimate Diary of A Professional Lady. (1926)
But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1928)

Plays

Happy Birthday (1946)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1949)
Gigi (1951)
Chéri (1959)

Film
/I signals that Loos also wrote the
intertitles; some works are co-written

Writer (screenplay/ scenario)	My Baby (1912) The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912) The New York Hat (1912) The Mistake (1913) The Telephone Girl and the Lady (1913) Billy's Rival (1914) The Girl in the Shack (1914) The Hunchback (1914) The Sisters (1914/I) The Americano (1916/I) Stranded (1916/I) The Half-Breed (1916) His Picture in the Papers (1916) The Children Pay (1916) A Daughter of the Poor (1917) Reaching for the Moon (1917) Wild and Woolly (1917) Let's Get a Divorce (1918) The Isle of Conquest (1919) A Virtuous Vamp (1919) Mama's Affair (1921) Red Hot Romance (1922) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1928) The Struggle (1931) Red-Headed Woman (1932) The Barbarian (1933) Hold Your Man (1933) The Girl from Missouri (1934; original) Riffraff (1936) San Francisco (1936) Saratoga (1937) The Women (1939) Susan and God (1940) Blossoms in the Dust (1941) When Ladies Meet (1941) The Lost House (1915) They Met in Bombay (1941) I Married an Angel (1942) Producers' Showcase "Happy Birthday" (1956)
Story	Nell's Eugenic Wedding (1914) American Aristocracy (1916) Woman's Place (1921) Midnight Mary (1933) Saratoga (1937)
Novel	Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1928) Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1955)
Titles	The Americano (1916) Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916) Macbeth (1916) The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (1916) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1928)
Other	The Branded Woman (1920; adaptation) Red Hot Romance (1922; executive producer) Blondie of the Follies (1932; dialogue) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953; play)
Uncredited	The Cat and the Fiddle (1934) The Cowboy and the Lady (1938) Another Thin Man (1939) Babes in Arms (1939) Strange Cargo (1940) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)