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| starring = Elsie FergusonWallace ReidMontague LoveGeorge FawcettElliott Dexter| cinematography = Arthur C. Miller| editing =| distributor = Paramount Pictures192116192205|nationwide}}| runtime = 60+ minutes (at 7236 feet)| country = United StatesSilent film>Silent (English intertitles)}}Forever is a 1921 American silent romance film, also known as Peter Ibbetson, that was written by Ouida Bergère and directed by George Fitzmaurice. It was adapted from George du Maurier's 1891 novel Peter Ibbetson, which was made into a play of the same name by John N. Raphael.WEB,weblink Forever, afi.com, April 28, 2024,

Plot

(File:Forever lobby card.jpg|thumb|Lobby card)Peter Ibbetson (Reid) is an orphan raised by his uncle, Colonel Ibbetson. When the Colonel insults his dead mother, Peter attacks him and is ordered from the house. Then the young man runs into his childhood sweetheart, Mimsi (Ferguson), and their romantic feelings are rekindled.Unfortunately, Mimsi has married, but they carry on a love affair in their dreams. Their dream-affair continues over the years, even after Peter kills her husband, the Duke of Towers, and gets a life prison sentence.

Cast

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• Wallace Reid as Peter Ibbetson
• Elsie Ferguson as Mimsi
• Montagu Love as Colonel Ibbetson
• George Fawcett as Duquesnois
• Dolores Cassinelli as Dolores
• Paul McAllister as Seraskier
• Elliott Dexter as Pasquier
• Barbara Dean as Madame Pasquier
• Nell Roy Buck as child Mimsi
• Charles Eaton as child Gogo
• Jerome Patrick as Duke of towers

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Proposed film

Famous Players–Lasky had planned in 1919 to bring all three Barrymores, Lionel, Ethel and John to the screen in a lavish production of the Du Maurier novel Peter Ibbetson for that year. Thereby John and Lionel would repeat their 1917 Broadway stage success.Peter Ibbetson, produced on Broadway Republic Theatre Apr-Jun 1917 Ethel had played a part in getting the play produced. John had been making comedies for the Paramount for five years, Ethel had been under contract to Metro Pictures but Ethel's contract was ending that same year. Lionel freelanced in and out of Metro to companies like Paramount and First National. If produced the film would have united all three Barrymore siblings in their second film but also in the same scenes. A previous silent film National Red Cross Pageant (1917) had all three siblings but not in the same scenes. Never produced, the Peter Ibbetson project met the screen in the film known as Forever with Wallace Reid and Elsie Ferguson. Paramount 1919 advertisement promoting proposed Peter Ibbetson project with Ethel, Lionel and John Barrymore; plans were scrapped

Preservation

A copy of the film was held until the 1970s by Wallace Reid's widow, Dorothy Davenport, who donated it for a proposed museum archive,{{Citation needed|reason=Original citation associated with this statement, from TheGreatStars.com, does not include this information|date=April 2024}} but the film was lost by the Hollywood Museum.WEB,weblink American Silent Feature Film Database: Forever, April 28, 2024, Library of Congress, Currently, with no prints of Forever located in any film archives, it is considered a lost film.WEB,weblink Forever at TheGreatStars.com; Lost Films Wanted,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20141225003106weblink">weblink 2014-12-25, 2024-04-28, dead, TheGreatStars.com, In February of 2021, the film was cited by the National Film Preservation Board on their Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films list.WEB,weblink 7,200 Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films (1912-29), National Film Preservation Board, April 28, 2024,

See also

• List of lost films

References

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External links

{{Commons category|Forever (1921 film)}}

• {{IMDb title|id=0012188|title=Forever}}
• Progressive Silent Film List: Forever at silentera.com

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