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Picture Show, Dec 11, 1920, p.14

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June Elvidge, Frank Mayo and Madge Evans in The Love Defender (1919)

Motion Picture News, Mar 29, 1919

Motion Picture Magazine, Jan 1919

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James Kirkwood returns to the studios after his accident, which it was feared, for a time, might prove fatal. Frank Mayo and Lila Lee Kirkwood look on as he is welcomed back to the Kleig lights.

-Motion Picture Magazine, Feb 1924, p.70

<Difference between the original book and the film>

Frank Mayo was to take the role in "Wild Oranges" that James Kirkwood had to vacate when a fall from his horse so nearly killed him.(Motion Picture Classic, Dec 1923, p.86) So there are several difference between the film and the original book.

Age of the leading man: In the book, there was a big age gap between the male and female leads. In the book, the male lead John Woolfolk is 46-year-old. For the filming, 35-year-old Frank Mayo replaces James Kirkwood. John Woolfolk's age is not mentioned in the film.

Age of the villain character: As the protagonist changes, the villain's age also becomes younger. The villain Iscah Nicholas was 48-year-old in the book, but in the movie, he is “around 30-year-old.”

The time John Woolfolk wandering the sea: After the tragic death of his wife Ellen, John Wolfolk drifted around the sea until he met Millie. In the book, this period of time is 12 years, but in the movie, it is three years.

Relationship between Litchfield Stope and Millie: In the book, Litchfield Stope and Millie are portrayed as father and daughter, but in the film, they are portrayed as grandfather and daughter.

Paul Halvard: John Woolfolk's sailing companion and cook, Paul Halvard, is shot twice in the film but survives, whereas in the original book he dies at the end.

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Mille rose with her arms outspread, her chin high and eyes closed.

"Free!" she proclaimed with a slow, deep breath. The sails filled and the ketch forged ahead. John Woolfolk, at the wheel, glanced at the chart section beside him.

"There's four feet on the bar at low water," he told Halvard. "The tide's at half flood now."

The Gar increased her speed, slipping easily out of the bay, gladly, it seemed to Woolfolk, turning toward the sea. The bow rose, and the ketch dipped forward over a spent wave. Millie Stope grasped the wheelbox. "Free!" she said again with shining eyes.

-Joseph Hergesheimer, Wild Oranges, Grosset & Dunlap, 1922, pp.51~52

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"I was afraid you'd gone out," she told him. "The sea is like a pack of wolves." Her voice was a low complexity of relief and fear.

-Joseph Hergesheimer, Wild Oranges, Grosset & Dunlap, 1922, p.71

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Wild Oranges (1924)

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"John Woolfolk was increasingly conscious of her peculiar charm. Millie Stope, he suddenly realized, was like the wild oranges in the neglected grove at her door. A man brought in contact with her magnetic being charged with appealing and mysterious emotions, in a setting of exotic night and black sea, would find other women, the ordinary concourse of society, insipid—like faintly sweetened water."

-Joseph Hergesheimer, Wild Oranges, Grosset & Dunlap, 1922, p.50

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Motion Picture News Studio Directory, Oct 21, 1916

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Motion Picture News Studio Directory, Oct 21, 1916

Harry with a puppy

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Sid Smith & Harry McCoy on the sofa

The Moving Picture World, Nov 22, 1919

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Frank Mayo in Doughboys (1930)

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