Premise: Forgotten Faces is a 1936 American drama film directed by Ewald André Dupont and starring Herbert Marshall, Gertrude Michael and James Burke. Dupont made the film as part of a three-picture contract with Paramount Pictures. The film was based on a short story by Richard Washburn Child, which had previously been made as a 1928 silent film "Forgotten Faces" by Paramount.
Hypothesis: Forgotten Faces was remade in 1936 to mitigate film decomposition