A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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The Venus Model
(1918) United States of America
B&W : Five reels / 4744 feet
Directed by Clarence G. Badger (Clarence Badger)

Cast: Mabel Normand [Kitty O’Brien], Rod La Rocque [Paul Braddock], Alec B. Francis [John Braddock], Alfred Hickman [Nathan Bergman], Edward Elkas [Briggs], Edward Boulden [Bagley], Una Trevalyn [Hattie Fanshawe], Nadia Gary [‘Dimples’ Briggs], Albert Hackett [the boy]

Goldwyn Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Goldwyn Distributing Corporation. / Scenario by J. Clarkson Miller, from a screen story by Harry R. Durant. Art direction by Hugo Ballin. Cinematography by J.C. Bitzer. / © 4 June 1918 by Goldwyn Pictures Corporation [LP12520]. Released 16 June 1918. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Comedy-Drama.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 30 November 2023.

References: Fussell-Normand p. 263 : Website-AFI; Website-ASFFDb.