Stephen Steps Out

1923 film by Joseph Henabery From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Stephen Steps Out is a 1923 American silent comedy film that is notable as being the first starring role for the still teenaged Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Directed by Joseph Henabery, it was based on a short story by Richard Harding Davis, "The Grand Cross of the Desert."[1]

Directed byJoseph Henabery
Written byEdfrid Bingham (scenario)
Based on"The Grand Cross of the Desert"
by Richard Harding Davis
Produced byJesse Lasky
William Elliott
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Stephen Steps Out
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Directed byJoseph Henabery
Written byEdfrid Bingham (scenario)
Based on"The Grand Cross of the Desert"
by Richard Harding Davis
Produced byJesse Lasky
William Elliott
StarringDouglas Fairbanks Jr.
Harry Myers
CinematographyFaxon M. Dean
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • November 18, 1923 (1923-11-18)
Running time
6 reels; (5,652 feet)
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)
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With this film the young Fairbanks Jr. opted for a screen career despite opposition from his famous actor father, Douglas Fairbanks.

"I was terribly chubby," recalled Fairbanks Jr. "Did it for the money. When my parents separated, it was hardly amicable and mother and I needed to eat. Movie companies were willing to exploit my famous name. I didn't really understand that at the time."[2]

Plot

As described in a film magazine review,[3] the young son of a wealthy American fails his class in history at school, so he is sent to Turkey to learn the subject firsthand on the premises. He learns that the instructor who flunked him in his exam at school is to be dismissed for it, and he intervenes and gets the school board to retain the man, having first obtained for him a decoration from the Sultan.

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Preservation

With no prints of Stephen Steps Out located in any film archives,[4] it is a lost film.[5][6]

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