''Don't Tell Everything'' is a 1921 American silent

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...

directed by

Sam Wood Samuel Grosvenor Wood (July 10, 1883 – September 22, 1949) was an American film director and producer who is best known for having directed such Hollywood hits as ''A Night at the Opera (film), A Night at the Opera'', ''A Day at the Races (fi ...

and starring

Gloria Swanson Gloria Mae Josephine Swanson (March 27, 1899April 4, 1983) was an American actress. She first achieved fame acting in dozens of silent films in the 1920s and was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, most famously for h ...

and

Wallace Reid William Wallace Halleck Reid (April 15, 1891 – January 18, 1923) was an American actor in silent film, referred to as "the screen's most perfect lover". He also had a brief career as a racing driver. Early life Reid was born in St. Lou ...

. Wood apparently created this film in part from

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s left over from Cecil DeMille's ''

The Affairs of Anatol ''The Affairs of Anatol'' is a 1921 American silent comedy-drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Wallace Reid and Gloria Swanson. The film is based on the 1893 play '' Anatol'' by Arthur Schnitzler. It was adapted by Jeanie ...

'' (1921). It is not known whether the film currently survives.

Plot

As described in a

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, Cullen Dale (Reid) becomes engaged to Marian Westover (Swanson), and when explaining various photographs showing him intimately juxtaposed between divers young women, spreads a network of falsehoods which promise to involve him in subsequent difficulty. One photograph shows him with Jessica Ramsey (Cumming), a sportswoman who calls her men friends "pals." Learning of Cullen's engagement, she courts his company so consistently that the piqued Marian precipitates a secret marriage. The honeymoon is interrupted by a quarrel which terminates with Cullen's departure for Jessica's hunting lodge. Here Jessica's love-making becomes obvious and the arrival of wife Marian and their mutual friend Harvey Gilroy (Dexter) finds Cullen ready to patch up their differences. After a suitable delay, Marian allows him to do so, with a happy ending ensuing.

Cast

as Cullen Dale *

as Marian Westover * Elliott Dexter as Harvey Gilroy * Dorothy Cumming as Jessica Ramsey * Genevieve Blinn as Mrs. Morgan * K. T. Stevens as Cullen's niece (as Baby Gloria Wood) * Charles De Briac as Morgan Twin (as De Briac Twins) * Raymond De Briac as Morgan Twin (as De Briac Twins)

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Film stills and poster
at silenthollywood.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Don't Tell Everything 1921 films 1921 drama films Silent American drama films American silent feature films American black-and-white films Films directed by Sam Wood Lost American drama films 1921 lost films 1920s American films

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