To Have and to Hold (1922 film)

To Have and to Hold
Poster for the film
Directed by	George Fitzmaurice
Screenplay by	Ouida Bergère
Based on	To Have and to Hold by Mary Johnston
Produced by	Adolph Zukor Jesse L. Lasky
Starring	Bert Lytell Betty Compson
Cinematography	Arthur C. Miller
Distributed by	Famous Players–Lasky Corporation Paramount Pictures
Release date	October 29, 1922 (1922-10-29) (United States)
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Publicity still of the film's stars,
Betty Compson and Bert Lytell, 1922

To Have and to Hold is a 1922 American silent historical drama film. Based on the 1899 novel of the same name. The film was directed by George Fitzmaurice and starred Bert Lytell and Betty Compson.^[1]

The novel was first adapted for the screen in 1916 starring Mae Murray and Wallace Reid.^[2]

Plot

Cast

• Betty Compson as Lady Jocelyn Leigh
• Bert Lytell as Captain Ralph Percy
• Theodore Kosloff as Lord Carnal
• William J. Ferguson as Jeremy Sparrow
• Raymond Hatton as King James I
• Claire Du Brey as Patience Worth
• Walter Long as Red Gill
• Anne Cornwall as Lady Jane Carr
• Fred Huntley as Paradise
• Arthur Rankin as Lord Cecil
• Lucien Littlefield as Duke of Buckingham

Preservation

With no prints of To Have and to Hold located in any film archives, it is considered a lost film.^[3] In February of 2021, the film was cited by the National Film Preservation Board on their Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films list.^[1][4]

See also

• List of lost films

References

1. "To Have and to Hold". afi.com. Retrieved April 28, 2024.
2. "To Have and to Hold (1916)". afi.com. Retrieved April 28, 2024.
3. "American Silent Feature Film Database: To Have and to Hold". Library of Congress. Retrieved April 28, 2024.
4. "7,200 Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films (1912-29)" (PDF). National Film Preservation Board. Retrieved April 28, 2024.

External links

• To Have and to Hold at IMDb
• To Have and to Hold at Virtual History