Blue Water (film)

Blue Water is a lost 1924 Canadian silent film directed by David Hartford and starring Pierre Gendron, Jane Thomas, and Norma Shearer. It is the last feature produced by Ernest Shipman, and is the Montreal-born, future MGM star Shearer's only Canadian film. It had a commercial release in Saint John, New Brunswick, where it was shot, but no print is known to exist.^[1][2] The film failed to succeed commercially, marking Shipman's decline in success until his death in 1931.^[3] Without being distributed, the film was stored in a New York vault.^[4]

Blue Water
Snippet of the film from a newspaper
Directed by	David Hartford
Written by	Faith Green Frederick William Wallace (novel)
Produced by	Ernest Shipman
Cinematography	Walter L. Griffin
Production company	New Brunswick Films
Distributed by	Ernest Shipman Films
Release date	16 April 1924 (1924-04-16)
Country	Canada
Languages	Silent English intertitles

The film has no surviving copies,^[5] making it a lost film.^[6]

Cast

• Pierre Gendron as Jimmie Westhaver
• Jane Thomas as Carrie
• Norma Shearer as Lillian Denton
• John Webb Dillon
• Harlan Knight
• Louis Darclay