The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1929 film)

For other uses, see The Bridge of San Luis Rey (disambiguation).

The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Directed by	Charles Brabin
Produced by	Hunt Stromberg
Written by	Marian Ainslee Ruth Cummings Alice D. G. Miller Thornton Wilder (novel)
Starring	Lili Damita Duncan Renaldo Raquel Torres
Music by	Carli Elinor Peter Brunelli (uncredited)
Cinematography	Merritt B. Gerstad
Editing by	Margaret Booth
Studio	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date(s)	March 30, 1929
Running time	86 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1929) is a film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in both silent and part-talkie versions. The film was directed by Charles Brabin and starred Lili Damita and Don Alvarado. Only the silent version exists at the George Eastman House film archive.

The film closely follows the bestselling 1927 Thornton Wilder novel of the same name and won the second Academy Award for Best Art Direction.

Background and production

The film and novel are very loosely based on the real life story of Micaela Villegas (1748–1819), a famous Peruvian entertainer known as La Perichole. Her life was also the inspiration for the novella Le Carrosse du Saint-Sacrement by Prosper Mérimée; the opéra bouffe La Périchole by Jacques Offenbach; and Jean Renoir’s 1953 film Le Carrosse d'or (The Golden Coach).

Remakes

The film was remade in 1944 with Lynn Bari, and once more in 2004, starring F. Murray Abraham, Gabriel Byrne, Robert De Niro, Kathy Bates, and Pilar López de Ayala.

Cast

• Lili Damita as Camila (La Perichole)
• Ernest Torrence as Uncle Pio
• Raquel Torres as Pepita
• Don Alvarado as Manuel
• Duncan Renaldo as Esteban
• Henry B. Walthall as Father Juniper
• Michael Vavitch as Viceroy
• Emily Fitzroy as Marquesa
• Jane Winton as Doña Carla
• Gordon Thorpe as Jaime
• Mitchell Lewis as Capt. Alvarado
• Paul Ellis as Don Vicente
• Eugenie Besserer as A nun
• Tully Marshall as A townsman

External links

• The Bridge of San Luis Rey at the Internet Movie Database
• The Bridge of San Luis Rey at AllRovi
• The Bridge of San Luis Rey at the British Film Institute's Film and TV Database
• The Bridge of San Luis Rey at SilentEra