Let Not Man Put Asunder

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Let Not Man Put Asunder

Directed by	J. Stuart Blackton
Written by	Charles Gaskill (scenario)
Based on	Let Not Man Put Asunder by Basil King
Produced by	J. Stuart Blackton
Starring	Pauline Frederick Lou Tellegen
Production company	Vitagraph Company of America
Distributed by	Vitagraph Company of America
Release date	February 1924 (1924-02)
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Let Not Man Put Asunder is a 1924 American silent drama film starring Pauline Frederick, produced and directed by J. Stuart Blackton, and distributed by Vitagraph, a company Blackton co-founded. The story is based on a 1902 novel of the same name by Basil King about divorce.^[1]

Similarly, Let No Man Put Asunder, titled film was made in 1913 by the Essanay Company starring Francis X. Bushman and Beverly Bayne.

Plot

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Cast

Pauline Frederick as Petrina Faneuil
Lou Tellegen as Dick Lechmere
Leslie Austin as Harry Vassall
Helena D'Algy as Felicia De Proney
Pauline Neff as Lady De Bohun
Barbara Leonard as Polly De Bohun
Maurice Costello as Sir Humphrey
Martha Petelle as Mrs. Vassall
Gladys Frazin as Gentian Tyrell
Homer Lynn as Chaillot
Clifton Webb as Major Bertie (uncredited)

Costars Tellegen and Frazin both committed unrelated suicides after their respective serial divorces and career declines.^[2]

Preservation

With no prints of Let Not Man Put Asunder found in any film archive,^[3]^[4] it is a lost film.

References

^ Progressive Silent Film List: Let Not Man Put Asunder at silentera.com
^ Kenneth Anger, Hollywood Babylon II, Plume reprint, 1984, NY, p.233.
^ "Let Not Man Put Asunder (1924)". stanford.edu. May 2, 2009. Retrieved May 9, 2013.
^ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Let Not Man Put Asunder

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Feature films	The Life of Moses (1909) The Battle Cry of Peace (1915) Whom the Gods Destroy (1916) The Judgment House (1917) Womanhood, the Glory of the Nation (1917) Life's Greatest Problem (1918) The World for Sale (1918) The Common Cause (1919) My Husband's Other Wife (1920) Passers By (1920) The House of the Tolling Bell (1920) Respectable by Proxy (1920) Man and His Woman (1920) The Blood Barrier (1920) The Forbidden Valley (1920) The Glorious Adventure (1922) A Gipsy Cavalier (1922) The Virgin Queen (1923) On the Banks of the Wabash (1923) Between Friends (1924) Let Not Man Put Asunder (1924) The Beloved Brute (1924) The Clean Heart (1924) Behold This Woman (1924) The Happy Warrior (1925) The Redeeming Sin (1925) Tides of Passion (1925) Bride of the Storm (1926) Hell-Bent for Heaven (1926) The Gilded Highway (1926) The Passionate Quest (1926) The American (1927)
Short films	The Humpty Dumpty Circus (1898) The Enchanted Drawing (1900) Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; or, Held for Ransom (1905) Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (1906) The Automobile Thieves (1906) The Haunted Hotel (1907) A Curious Dream (1907) Macbeth (1908) Romeo and Juliet (1908) Antony and Cleopatra (1908) Oliver Twist (1909) Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy (1909) Les Misérables (1909) A Midsummer Night's Dream (1909)
Related	Vitagraph Studios Paula Blackton (wife) Marian Constance Blackton (daughter)

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