Souls For Sale casts Eleanor Boardman as a young preacher's kid with a thirst for life outside her stuffy small town. She gets a whirlwind courtship from Lew Cody and marries him. But something tells her that he's no good and she runs away, unfortunately out into the desert.
Where by the merest chance a Hollywood motion picture company is shooting a silent screen epic having to do with sheiks. A guy named Valentino made those most popular back in that day. So imagine Eleanor's surprise when star Frank Mayo comes riding up in full Lawrence of Arabia regalia. Would you blame her for thinking it's a mirage?
Mayo likes her, but Boardman's got eyes for Richard Dix the director. Still given her marriage in haste to Cody she can't commit to Dix and can't tell him the reason why.
While Boardman is climbing the ladder of success in Hollywood, it's revealed that Cody is as bad a villain that ever graced a Victorian melodrama. He's out to get Boardman now that she's a celebrity and woe betide anyone in his way.
I said that Cody was a character out of a Victorian melodrama and in point of fact even with the trappings of Hollywood in a then modern story, Souls For Sale does belong in the Victorian age. Still with its many cameo appearances of Hollywood personalities of the day appearing as themselves, the film is an interesting look at the movie capital during the silent era.
Where by the merest chance a Hollywood motion picture company is shooting a silent screen epic having to do with sheiks. A guy named Valentino made those most popular back in that day. So imagine Eleanor's surprise when star Frank Mayo comes riding up in full Lawrence of Arabia regalia. Would you blame her for thinking it's a mirage?
Mayo likes her, but Boardman's got eyes for Richard Dix the director. Still given her marriage in haste to Cody she can't commit to Dix and can't tell him the reason why.
While Boardman is climbing the ladder of success in Hollywood, it's revealed that Cody is as bad a villain that ever graced a Victorian melodrama. He's out to get Boardman now that she's a celebrity and woe betide anyone in his way.
I said that Cody was a character out of a Victorian melodrama and in point of fact even with the trappings of Hollywood in a then modern story, Souls For Sale does belong in the Victorian age. Still with its many cameo appearances of Hollywood personalities of the day appearing as themselves, the film is an interesting look at the movie capital during the silent era.