The Gilded Highway Explained

The Gilded Highway
Director:	J. Stuart Blackton
Starring:	Dorothy Devore John Harron Macklyn Arbuckle
Cinematography:	Nicholas Musuraca
Studio:	Warner Bros.
Distributor:	Warner Bros.
Runtime:	74 minutes
Country:	United States
Language:	Silent (English intertitles)

The Gilded Highway is a lost 1926 American silent drama film directed by J. Stuart Blackton and starring Dorothy Devore, John Harron, and Macklyn Arbuckle.^{[1] [2]}

Plot

As described in a film magazine review, a rich uncle dies and leaves money to the Welby family. The results are disastrous. Young Jack Welby abandons Amabel, the young woman he is engaged to; his sister Primrose quits her fiance Hugo Blythe; and the whole family goes in for high living. In the end when they are broke, they come to their senses, but not before all family members experience considerable grief. A faithful former servant who runs their old home as a boarding house comes to their assistance. The lovers are reunited.

Cast

• Dorothy Devore as Primrose Welby
• John Harron as Jack Welby
• Macklyn Arbuckle as Jonathan Welby
• Myrna Loy as Inez Quartz
• Florence Turner as Mrs. Welby
• Sheldon Lewis as Uncle Nicholas Welby
• Andrée Tourneur as Amabel
• Gardner James as Hugo Blythe
• Mathilde Comont as Sarah
• Thomas R. Mills as Adolphus Faring

Preservation

With no prints of The Gilded Highway in any film archives,^[3] it is a lost film.

Notes and References

1. Book: Leider, Emily W. . Myrna Loy: The Only Good Girl in Hollywood . University of California Press . 2011 . 315 . 978-0-520-25320-9.
2. https://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/G/GildedHighway1926.html Progressive Silent Film List: The Gilded Highway
3. https://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.5602/ Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: The Gilded Highway