Novelist Rupert Hughes did what he could to calm the backlash down in his 1922 novel, Souls for Sale, and again in his own adaptation of it in 1923, a large pool of talent lending their names to his cause in a string of cameos. Those three happened in the three years between 19. It’s a Hollywood movie all about Hollywood movies, an attempt to defend an industry that had so recently endured so many scandals: the overdose of Olive Thomas, the Fatty Arbuckle trials and the murder of film director William Desmond Taylor. To my discredit, it does, but many of these names drifted quickly away from the limelight. I’m far more versed in silent cinema in 2023, so I was eager to see if that would hold true today. I first saw it on TCM in 2006 and failed to recognise many of the “thirty-five famous stars” that it boasts alongside its leads. I took this viewing of Souls for Sale as a kind of test.
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