Lily of the Dust

Lily of the Dust
Lily of the Dust
	Film poster
Directed by	Dimitri Buchowetzki
Written by	Paul Bern (scenario)
Produced by	Adolph Zukor; Jesse L. Lasky
Starring	Pola Negri; Ben Lyon
Cinematography	Alvin Wyckoff
Production; company	Famous Players-Lasky
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	August 24, 1924;
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.

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[1] 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

[2] Progressive Silent Film List: Lily of the Dust at silentera.com

[3] The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30 by The American Film Institute (1971)

[4] 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.

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