Salome of the Tenements

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Salome of the Tenements
Directed by	Sidney Olcott
Written by	Anzia Yezierska (novel) Sonya Levien
Starring	Jetta Goudal Godfrey Tearle
Release date(s)	1925
Country	United States
Language	Silent film English intertitles
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Salome of the Tenements is a 1925 silent film adapted to the screen by Sonya Levien from the Anzia Yezierska novel. Made by Jesse L. Lasky and Adolph Zukor's Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, it was directed by Sidney Olcott and starred Jetta Goudal and Godfrey Tearle.

The film, which was inspired by accounts of the real life of Rose Pastor Stokes, tells the story of poor immigrants living in New York's Jewish Lower East Side.