Greenhide
Greenhide is a 1926 Australian film directed by Charles Chauvel.
High society girl Marjory Paton Elsa Chauvel leaves the city to live on her fathers cattle property, run by Greenhide Gavin Bruce Gordon. She carries romantic notions of the bush, of being swung to the saddle by big brown arms, but Greenhide Gavin is initially only annoyed by her presence. Greenhide contains a blossoming romance, and the thwarting of a plot to steal cattle.Greenhide was Charles Chauvels second film, following The Moth of Moonbi 1926, and his final silent film. Chauvel scouted his leading lady, then Elsie May Wilcox, after seeing her in a stage musical called Crackers at the Cremorne Theatre in Brisbane, Queensland. Though she was reluctant at first to audition, Chauvel convinced her to perform a screentest, and ultimately offered her the role. The pair began a romantic relationship over the course of filming, and Charles and Elsa were married onJune 1927, at St James Church, Sydney, the ceremony officiated by Charles brother, the Reverend John Chauvel. ........
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