Be natural..Split personality disorder movie:
The rare silent film The Untameable,Directed by Herbert Blaché, perhaps
best known today as the husband of pioneering female director Alice Guy
Blaché a melodrama billed as "The Most Shocking Film of 1923!" will be
screened at 8 p.m. on Thursday, June 5, 2008, at the Echo Park Film
Center in Los Angeles. Then popular movie actress Gladys Walton stars.
Long before Nunnally Johnson's 1957 drama The
Three
Faces of Eve earned Joanne Woodward a Best Actress Academy Award, The
Untameable tackled the "sensational" (and shocking!) issue of split
personality disorder. Directed by Herbert Blaché, perhaps best known
today as the husband of pioneering female director Alice Guy Blaché, and
adapted by Hugh Hoffman from Gelett Burgess' novel, The Untameable
stars Gladys Walton in the dual role of Joy and her sadistic alter-ego
Edna.
Long before Joanne Woodward there was Gladys Walton
According to information found in the press release for The Untameable,
"the dual role of Joy/Edna was Gladys Walton's most challenging up to
that time … Edna is a whip-toting brute who dresses in leopard skins and
flogs the Oriental maid with whom she lives in a relationship with
strong lesbian elements. Miss Walton portrays this bizarre sadist in a
manner shocking to even the most brazen flapper of 1923 … The Untameable
is an astonishing film, and it is safe to say (at the least) that you
have never seen anything else like it!"
Also featured in The Untameable are handsome 1920s leading man Malcolm McGregor, John St. Polis, and Etta Lee.
'The Most Shocking Film of 1923!'
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