The Spanish Dancer

The Spanish Dancer
Directed by	Herbert Brenon
Produced by	Famous Players-Lasky
Written by	Adolphe Philippe d'Ennery (novel Don Cesar de Bazan) Dumanoir (Philippe Francois Pinel) (novel Don Cesar de Bazan) June Mathis (treatment, scenario) Beulah Marie Dix (treatment, scenario)
Starring	Pola Negri Antonio Moreno Wallace Beery Kathlyn Williams Gareth Hughes Adolphe Menjou Anne Shirley
Cinematography	James Wong Howe
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release dates	November 4, 1923 (1923-11-04)
Running time	9 reels at 8,434 feet (approx. 90-100 minutes)
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

The Spanish Dancer is a 1923 American silent costume epic starring Pola Negri as a gypsy fortune teller, Antonio Moreno as a romantic count, and Wallace Beery as the king of Spain. The movie was directed by Herbert Brenon and also features a five-year-old Anne Shirley, appearing under the name "Dawn O'Day." This film survives today.^[1]

Restored by the EYE Film Institute in the Netherlands, the movie was shown at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. on August 5, 2012, accompanied by the 1916 Lois Weber film Shoes.

The film is essentially the same story as Mary Pickford's Rosita which was filmed around the same time as The Spanish Dancer with Negri's old colleague from Germany Ernst Lubitsch directing. Negri's The Spanish Dancer was considered the better film.

Cast

Pola Negri as Gypsy fortune teller
Antonio Moreno as Don Cesar de Bazan
Wallace Beery as King Philip IV
Kathlyn Williams as Queen Isabel of Bourbon
Gareth Hughes as Lazarillo
Adolphe Menjou as Don Salluste
Edward Kipling as Marquis de Rotundo
Anne Shirley as Don Balthazar Carlos (billed as Dawn O'Day)
Charles A. Stevenson as Cardinal's Ambassador
Robert Agnew as Juan

References

↑ Progressive Silent Film List: The Spanish Dancer at silentera.com

External links

The Spanish Dancer at the Internet Movie Database
The Spanish Dancer; allmovie/ synopsis
EYE Institut restoration clip
The Spanish Dancer: being a translation from the original French by Henry L. Williams of Don Caesar de Bazan, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Pola Negri edition with illustrations from the Paramount film; on the Internet Archive

Films directed by Herbert Brenon

Ivanhoe (1913)
Neptune's Daughter (1914)
The Kreutzer Sonata (1915)
The Heart of Maryland (1915)
The Clemenceau Case (1915)
The Two Orphans (1915)
Sin (1915)
The Soul of Broadway (1915)
A Daughter of the Gods (1916)
War Brides (1916)
The Eternal Sin (1917)
The Fall of the Romanoffs (1917)
The Passing of the Third Floor Back (1918)
Victory and Peace (1918)
Beatrice (1919)
12.10 (1919)
Quinneys (1919)
The Mysterious Princess (1920)
The Stronger Passion (1921)
Little Sister (1921)
The Sign on the Door (1921)
Moonshine Valley (1922)
The Rustle of Silk (1923)
The Woman With Four Faces (1923)
The Spanish Dancer (1923)
Shadows of Paris (1924)
The Breaking Point (1924)
The Side Show of Life (1924)
The Alaskan (1924)
Peter Pan (1924)
The Little French Girl (1925)
A Kiss for Cinderella (1925)
The Street of Forgotten Men (1925)
The Song and Dance Man (1926)
Dancing Mothers (1926)
Beau Geste (1926)
God Gave Me Twenty Cents (1926)
The Great Gatsby (1926)
The Telephone Girl (1927)
Sorrell and Son (1927)
Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928)
The Rescue (1929)
Lummox (1930)
The Case of Sergeant Grisch (1930)
Beau Ideal (1931)
Royal Cavalcade (1935)
Honours Easy (1935)
Living Dangerously (1936)
Someone at the Door (1936)
Spring Handicap (1937)
The Dominant Sex (1937)
Housemaster (1938)
Yellow Sands (1938)
Black Eyes (1939)
The Flying Squad (1940)

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Monday, February 08, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.