Yolanda (film)


Yolanda is a 1924 silent historical film drama produced by William Randolph Hearst and starring Marion Davies. Robert G. Vignola directed as he had Enchantment and several other Davies costume films. The film is extant at Cinematheque de Belgique and the Museum of Modern Art and a trailer survives at the Library of Congress. The film began production as a Metro-Goldwyn film, with the company becoming Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in May 1924.
This was the second Marion Davies vehicle produced by Cosmopolitan from a Charles Major novel, the first being the phenomenally successful When Knighthood Was in Flower in 1922. Unlike Knighthood, Yolanda was not financially successful.

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In her 18th film, Marion Davies starred in another dual role: as Princess Mary of Burgundy and as Yolanda. Joseph Urban designed the mammoth sets which covered an city block on 2nd Avenue in New York. Exhibitors Herald noted it was the largest movie set ever built on the East Coast. This was the final Davies film Robert G. Vignola would direct. This was also the only pairing of Davies and Ralph Graves. While the film did well in big cities, that success did not extend to small towns and the film was generally considered a failure. It was just too similar to When Knighthood Was in Flower.