Fifty-Fifty (1925 film)

Fifty-Fifty
Fifty-Fifty
	Film poster
Directed by	Henri Diamant-Berger
Written by	Allan Dwan (original story)
Produced by	Henri Diamant-Berger
Starring	Hope Hampton; Lionel Barrymore; Louise Glaum
Cinematography	Henry Cronjager
Production; company	Encore Pictures
Distributed by	Associated Exhibitors
Release date	November 15, 1925;
Running time	50 minutes (5 reels)
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Fifty-Fifty is a 1925 American silent drama film starring Hope Hampton, Lionel Barrymore, and Louise Glaum. Directed and produced by Henri Diamant-Berger for the production company Encore Pictures, Fifty-Fifty is a remake of a 1916 Norma Talmadge film also titled Fifty-fifty that was directed by Allan Dwan, who wrote the original story.

The film was exhibited the week of January 3, 1926, in Los Angeles, at the Hillstreet Theatre,^[1] which featured both vaudeville and movies.^[2]

Plot

American millionaire Frederick Harmon (played by Lionel Barrymore) is in Paris, France, for business and pleasure. While enjoying the Parisian night life, he meets and falls in love with Ginette (played by Hope Hampton), a fashion model who moonlights as an apache dancer in a nightclub.

They marry and he returns to New York with her. When Harmon meets the urbane divorcee Nina Olmstead (played by Louise Glaum) he becomes involved in an affair. Ginette discovers her husband's infidelity and decides to win him back by going out with an old boyfriend, Jean (played by Jean Del Val), a member of the Paris underworld.

Nina schemes to end the marriage of the Harmons using the seeming romance between Ginette and Jean. Harmon learns of Nina's treachery and her attempt to estrange the couple fails. He realizes that Ginette was merely trying to make him jealous and that he completely trusts her loyalty to him. They are happily reconciled.