Shadows of Paris

Shadows of Paris is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by Herbert Brenon and starring Pola Negri, Charles de Rochefort and Huntley Gordon. A young woman rises from an apache dancer to become a wealthy woman in post-World War I Paris.^[1] It was based on the play Mon Homme by Francis Carco and André Picard.

Cast

• Pola Negri as Claire, Queen of the Apaches
• Charles de Rochefort as Fernand, an Apache
• Huntley Gordon as Raoul Grammont - Minister of the Interior
• Adolphe Menjou as Georges de Croy, His Secretary
• Gareth Hughes as Emile Boule
• Vera Reynolds as Liane
• Rose Dione as Madame Boule, Café Owner
• Rosita Marstini as Madame Vali, A Poetess
• Edward Kipling as Pierre, a Roué
• Maurice de Canonge as Robert, A Taxi Driver
• Frank Nelson as Le Bossu, the Hunchback
• George O'Brien as Louis
• Sam Appel as Monsieur Boule

Preservation

The film is considered lost. Only a minute of footage survives in a 1936 Paramount short Fashions in Love.^[2]

References

Bibliography

• Basinger, Jeanine. Silent Stars. Wesleyan University Press, 2000.

External links

• Shadows of Paris at the Internet Movie Database
• lobby poster