Altars of Desire

Altars of Desire

70 mins | Drama, Romance | Feb. 15, 1927

Mae Murray plays a willful American lass whose wealthy dad (Robert Edeson) sends her to Paris so that she may pick up some "refinement." Instead, she picks up a fortune-hunting nobleman, played as a frivolous fop by a monocled Andre Beranger. True-blue hero Conway Tearle prevents Murray from making a bigger fool of herself than she already is.

Altars of Desire

70 mins | Drama, Romance | Feb. 15, 1927

Altars of Desire
Mae Murray plays a willful American lass whose wealthy dad (Robert Edeson) sends her to Paris so that she may pick up some "refinement." Instead, she picks up a fortune-hunting nobleman, played as a frivolous fop by a monocled Andre Beranger. True-blue hero Conway Tearle prevents Murray from making a bigger fool of herself than she already is.
Producers Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Original title Altars of Desire
Directors Christy Cabanne
Writers Maria T. Davis, Alice D.G. Miller, Agnes Christine Johnston, Albert Lewin

Cast

Mae Murray

as Claire Sutherland

Conway Tearle

as David Elrod

Robert Edeson

as John Sutherland

Maude George

as Kitty Pryor

George Beranger

as Count André D'Orville