Blue Water (film)

Blue Water is a 1924 Canadian silent film directed by David Hartford and starring Pierre Gendron, Jane Thomas, and Norma Shearer. It is the last feature produced by Ernest Shipman, and is the Montreal-born, future MGM star Shearer's only Canadian film. It had a commercial release in Saint John, New Brunswick, where it was shot, but no print is known to exist.[1][2] It is a lost film.[3]

Blue Water
Directed byDavid Hartford
Written byFaith Green
Frederick William Wallace (novel)
Produced byErnest Shipman
CinematographyWalter L. Griffin
Production
company
New Brunswick Films
Distributed byErnest Shipman Films
Release date
16 April 1924
CountryCanada
LanguagesSilent
English intertitles

Cast

References

  1. Morris, Peter (1978). Embattled Shadows: A History of Canadian Cinema 1895-1939. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. p. 120. ISBN 0-7735-0323-4.
  2. Jacobs & Braum p.80
  3. Webb, Steven (11 September 2022). "Lost to history, Saint John's silent movie is barely a memory a century later". Retrieved 22 August 2023.

Bibliography

  • Jack Jacobs & Myron Braum. The films of Norma Shearer. A. S. Barnes, 1976.


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