Another royal Russian confection. Remember the dark gothic horror of The Queen of Spades? Well, this is not that. Instead we get to see Constance Talmadge (who also produced the film) saved from a very awkward love triangle by an actual duchess, who is not from Buffalo. The film’s title, though nothing else in the story, refers to an American woman who was in the news for marrying a Russian Baron three years after her father founded a candy company in Buffalo. In her honor, the film was premiered at Shea’s Buffalo Theatre.
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