Passion's Playground

Passion's Playground
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Directed by	J. A. Barry
Produced by	Katherine MacDonald
Written by	Charles Norris Williamson Alice Muriel Williamson
Starring	Katherine MacDonald Norman Kerry Nell Craig
Cinematography	Joseph Brotherton
Production company	Katherine MacDonald Pictures Corporation
Distributed by	First National Exhibitors
Release date	April 1920
Running time	5 reels
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)
Box office	$1 million

Passion's Playground is a 1920 American silent drama film produced by and starring Katherine MacDonald. Rudolph Valentino has a featured part in the film billed as Rudolph Valentine. The film is based on the novel The Guests of Hercules by Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson. This film is presumed lost.

As described in a film magazine, Mary Grant (MacDonald), an orphan, leaves an Italian convent and goes to Monte Carlo where, with beginner's luck, she breaks the bank. When her unsophisticated ways lead men to make unseemly advances, she is protected by Prince Angelo Della Robbia (Valentino), whom she later promises to marry. His brother's wife comes to visit her and she learns that she is Marie Grant (Craig), a former student of the same convent who several years earlier had eloped with a man who then deserted her. When a former sweetheart of her husband accuses her of the deed, she places the blame on Mary. Mary goes to a chateau in the mountains. When her life is threatened by crooks, the Prince, after learning the truth of the matter, comes to her rescue, and a happy ending follows.