The Darling of Paris
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| The Darling of Paris | |
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| Directed by | J. Gordon Edwards |
| Written by | Victor Hugo (novel) Adrian Jackson |
| Starring | Theda Bara Glen White |
| Distributed by | Fox Film Corporation |
| Release date(s) |  January 1917 |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent film English intertitles |
The Darling of Paris is a 1917 silent film directed by J. Gordon Edwards and starring Theda Bara and Glen White. This is a very loose film adaptation of the novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo. It was made by Fox Film Corporation when it and many other early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based in Fort Lee, New Jersey at the beginning of the 20th century.[1][2][3]The film is now considered to be lost.[4]
[edit] Cast
- Theda Bara as Esmeralda
- Glen White as Quasimodo. White's last of five films with Bara.
- Walter Law as Claude Frollo
- Herbert Heyes as Captain Phoebus
- Carey Lee as Paquette
- John Webb Dillon as Clopin Trouillefou
- Louis Dean as Pierre Gringoire
- Alice Gale as Gypsy Queen
[edit] References
- ^ Kozarski, Ricchard (2004), Fort Lee: The Film Town, Rome, Italy: John Libbey Publishing -CIC srl, ISBN 0-86196-653-8, http://books.google.nl/books?id=5w0r8YKan04C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Fort+Lee:+the+film+town+Door+Richard+Koszarski&hl=nl&ei=fyO4TcjINoKeOpr32LsP&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false
- ^ "Studios and Films". Fort Lee Film Commmission. http://www.fortleefilm.org/studios.html. Retrieved 2011-05-30.
- ^ Fort Lee Film Commission (2006), Fort Lee Birthplace of the Motion Picture Industry, Arcadia Publishing, ISBN 0-7385-4501-5, http://books.google.com/books?id=ViR3b72xkK0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Fort+Lee+Birthplace+of+the+Motion+Picture+Industry&hl=nl&ei=ah3lTdmHMY7rObrH9bIG&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false
- ^ "Silent Era: Sin". silentera. http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/S/Sin1915.html. Retrieved 2008-06-28.
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