Stolen Love (film) explained

Stolen Love
Director:	Lynn Shores Walter Daniels (asst.)
Producer:	FBO
Starring:	Marceline Day Rex Lease
Cinematography:	Ted Pahle
Editing:	Ann McKnight
Distributor:	Film Booking Offices of America
Runtime:	7 reels
Country:	United States
Language:	Silent (English intertitles)

Stolen Love is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Lynn Shores and starring Marceline Day and Rex Lease.^{[1] [2]} The plot was adapted from a serial story by Hazel Livingston published in Hearst Corporation newspapers.

Cast

• Marceline Day as Joan Hastings
• Rex Lease as Bill
• Owen Moore as Curtis Barlow
• Helen Lynch as Ruth
• Blanche Frederici as Aunt Evvie
• Joy Winthrop as Aunt Babe
• Betty Blythe as Modiste

Critical reception

A review in Harrison's Reports summarized the film as "Only fair . . . an old story, told in a conventional way".^[3] It complimented Day's "very good performance" and described Lease as "likeable as the hero", but it described Moore's acting as "in colorless manner".

Preservation

With no prints of Stolen Love located in any film archives,^[4] it is a lost film.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Home. Aficatalog.afi.com. April 30, 2023.
2. http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/S/StolenLove1928.html Progressive Silent Film List: Stolen Love
3. News: 'Stolen Love' -- Marceline Day and Owen Moore . May 22, 2022 . Harrison's Reports . January 12, 1929 . 7.
4. Web site: Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Stolen Love. April 30, 1928. April 30, 2023. Memory.loc.gov.