Alice Guy Blache Cinema Pioneer Whitney museum 2009

Gladys Walton in The Untameable 1923 Herbert Blache

Gladys Walton in The Untameable 1923 Herbert Blache




the rare silent melodrama The Untameable, billed as "The Most Shocking Film of 1923!"
Long before The Three Faces of Eve, The Untameable tackled the then sensational issue of split personality disorder. Directed by Herbert Blaché

Gladys Walton-Untameable Herbert Blache Bolton

Gladys Walton-Untameable Herbert Blache Bolton
a
relationship with strong lesbian elements. Miss Walton
portrays this bizarre sadist in a manner shocking to even
the most brazen flapper of 1923.

The Untameable is an astonishing film, and it is safe to
say (at the least) that you have never seen anything else
like it!"