7:30 p.m.	Children of Divorce Frank Lloyd, Josef von Sternberg (U.S., 1927)

Though Children of Divorce was originally directed by Frank Lloyd, a substantial portion of the film was reshot by Sternberg, then an assistant director at Paramount. “You can’t miss the shadow language of his scenes,” Janet Bergstrom wrote. “Clara Bow and Gary Cooper are so young and exquisitely beautiful, lovers off-screen and on.” The melodrama traces the intertwining fates of three offspring of broken homes, played by Cooper, Bow, and Esther Ralston. An impoverished prince (Einar Hanson) squares the triangle, creating a romantic dilemma that is resolved not in divorce but in death.

• Written by Hope Loring, Louis D. Lighton, based on a novel by Owen Johnson. Photographed by Victor Milner. With Clara Bow, Esther Ralston, Gary Cooper, Einar Hanson. (70 mins @ 24 fps, Silent, B&W, 35mm, From Library of Congress)

Followed by short:
D’un silence à l’autre: Josef von Sternberg (André S. Labarthe, France, 1966). André S. Labarthe interviews Sternberg for the French television series Cinéastes de notre temps. “One of the finest evocations of the director’s thoughtful personality, his philosophy of film as an art form, and his appraisal of his own career” (Janet Bergstrom). (52 mins, In English, B&W, Beta SP, From AMIP)

• (Total running time: 122 mins)