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Dorothy Davenport (billed as Mrs. Wallace Reid) produced and partly directed this 1925 reform picture about a woman (Priscilla Bonner) who kills the man who put her in a house and then cannot get out of the story the papers write. From a real case. The red kimono is the costume the city puts on her. It is a silent social film with a woman in charge of the production, and the production is an argument: the system, not the girl. Released the year Reid's widow was still making pictures out of his death.
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Women Pioneers of Silent Cinema
Dorothy Davenport, billed as Mrs. Wallace Reid, produced this reform picture for her own company and took a hand in the direction; Walter Lang is the credited director. Adela Rogers St. Johns supplied the story, from a real New Orleans case, and Dorothy Arzner did the adaptation. Priscilla Bonner plays the woman the papers will not release. The red kimono is the costume the city will not let her take off. A woman ran Mrs. Wallace Reid Productions, and the production is an argument about who gets to leave a story the headlines have already written.
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