Empty Hearts Explained

Empty Hearts
Director:	Alfred Santell
Producer:	Ben Verschleiser
Story:	Evelyn Campbell
Starring:	John Bowers Charles Murray John Miljan Clara Bow
Cinematography:	Ernest Haller
Studio:	Banner Productions
Distributor:	Henry Ginsberg Distributing Company
Runtime:	6 reels
Country:	United States
Language:	Silent (English intertitles)

Empty Hearts is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by Alfred Santell. Adele Buffington wrote the scenario based on Evelyn Campbell's story published in Metropolitan.^{[1] [2]}

Plot

Milt Kimberlin marries a cabaret dancer who dies after he loses his money. Years later, he regains his fortune and remarries, but he is distant and misses his first wife. His new wife leaves him after a blackmailer's letter arrives suggesting infidelity in his first marriage, but eventually the truth is revealed and their relationship grows stronger.

Cast

• John Bowers as Milt Kimberlin
• Charles Murray as Joe Delane
• John Miljan as Frank Gorman
• Clara Bow as Rosalie
• Buck Black as Val Kimberlin
• Lillian Rich as Madeline
• Joan Standing as Hilda, the maid

Preservation

An incomplete print of Empty Hearts is held by the UCLA Film and Television Archive.^[3]

References

1. News: Refowich Theater. March 9, 1925. The Standard Sentinel. January 16, 2019.
2. http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/E/EmptyHearts1924.html Progressive Silent Film List: Empty Hearts
3. http://lcweb2.loc.gov:8081/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.3139/default.html Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Empty Hearts