The Only Thing

Name	The Only Thing
Image
Caption	Film still
Director	Jack Conway
Producer	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Writer	Elinor Glyn
Starring	Eleanor Boardman Conrad Nagel Edward Connelly
Cinematography	Chester A. Lyons
Distributor	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Released	1925-11-22
Runtime	6 reels
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Plot

As described in a review in a film magazine, a handsome and titled Englishman visits a Balkan kingdom and falls madly in love with a young princess who has come to marry the elderly, grouchy, and ugly king. He determines to save her even against her will and so daring and ardent is his lovemaking that she is about to consent when she determines that duty to the state comes first. A revolution occurs and the hero, when he finds that death has been decreed for all aristocrats, who are tied in pairs and send out to drown in leaky barges, contrives to be paired with her. A warship sent by her country saves them and they find happiness together.

Cast

Censorship

Before the film could be exhibited in Kansas, the Kansas Board of Review required the elimination of the Duke kissing a woman on her neck and breast, and to shorten a kissing scene.

Preservation

A complete print of The Only Thing is held in the George Eastman Museum Motion Picture Collection.

References

• Eames, John Douglas, The MGM Story: The Complete History Of Fifty Roaring Years, 3, 1975, Octopus Books, 21, 117
• Quirk, Lawrence J., Lawrence J. Quirk, Schoell, William, Joan Crawford: The Essential Biography, 2013, University Press of Kentucky
• Sewell, Charles S., Through the Box Office Window: , The Only Thing, ; Eleanor Boardman and Conrad Nagel in Colorful and Pleasing Elinor Glyn Story of Ardent Love, The Moving Picture World, 77, 5, 483, Chalmers Publishing Co., New York City, 5 December 1925, 19 October 2021
• Kansas Board of Review Movie Index - Kansas Historical Society, 2025-09-09, www.kansashistory.gov

External links

• Still with Joan Crawford