The Beautiful and Damned (film)

The Beautiful and Damned is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by William A. Seiter and released by Warner Bros. The film, based on the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel The Beautiful and Damned, starred Kenneth Harlan and Marie Prevost.

The film did well at the box office and critics were generally favorable. F. Scott Fitzgerald, however, disliked the film. He later wrote to a friend stating, Its by far the worst movie Ive ever seen in my lifecheap, vulgar, illconstructed and shoddy. We were utterly ashamed of it.The film is currently listed as a lost film, Warner Bros. records of the films negative have a notation, Junked 122748 i.e., December 27, 1948. Warner Bros. destroyed many of its negatives in the late 1940s and 1950s due to nitrate film pre1933 decomposition. In February 1956, Jack Warner sold the rights to all of his preDecember 1949 films to Associated Artists Productions, then, in 1969, UA donated 16mm prints of some Warner Bros. films from outside the United States. No copies of The Beautiful and Damned are known to exist. ........

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