Lily of the Dust
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Directed by | Dimitri Buchowetzki |
Written by | Paul Bern (scenario) |
Produced by | Adolph Zukor Jesse L. Lasky |
Starring | Pola Negri Ben Lyon |
Cinematography | Alvin Wyckoff |
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Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 7 reels, 6,811 feet |
Country | United States |
Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
Lily of the Dust is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki, starring Pola Negri, produced by Famous Players-Lasky, and distributed by Paramount Pictures. This movie was based on the novel The Song of Songs (German: Das hohe Lied) by Hermann Sudermann and the Broadway play The Song of Songs by Edward Sheldon.[1]
Lily of the Dust is now considered a lost film.[2][3]
This film is a remake of the American silent film The Song of Songs (1918).
Cast
- Pola Negri as Lily
- Ben Lyon as Lieutenant Prell
- Noah Beery as Colonel Mertzbach
- Raymond Griffith as Karl Dehnecke
- Jeanette Daudet as Julia
- William J. Kelly as Walter von Prell
- Alan George in an Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Production
Negri was happy working with director Buchowetzki, who had also directed her in Men (1924) and in the German film Sappho (1921), which had been released in the U.S. as Mad Love, as her performances turned out well in his films.[4] Buchowetzki would later direct her once more in the romantic drama film The Crown of Lies (1926).
References
- ^ The Song of Songs, play version of Lily of the Dust, as produced on Broadway at Eltinge 42nd Street Theatre December 22, 1914 to June 1915, 191 performances; IBDb.com
- ^ Progressive Silent Film List: Lily of the Dust at silentera.com
- ^ The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30 by The American Film Institute (1971)
- ^ Kotowski, Mariusz (2014). Pola Negri: Hollywood's First Femme Fatale. Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky. pp. 94–96. ISBN 978-0-8131-4490-0.
External links
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- Lily of the Dust at IMDb
- Synopsis at AllMovie
- Lily of the Dust lobby poster
- Stills at silentfilmstillarchive.com
- 1924 films
- 1920s drama films
- American drama films
- American film remakes
- American films
- American silent feature films
- Films directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki
- Films based on works by Edward Sheldon
- Films based on works by Hermann Sudermann
- Films based on German novels
- American films based on plays
- Films based on adaptations
- Films set in Germany
- Films set in the 1900s
- Famous Players-Lasky films
- Lost American films
- Films based on multiple works
- Sound film remakes of silent films
- American black-and-white films
- 1920s silent drama film stubs