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While Paris Sleeps

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While Paris Sleeps
Directed byMaurice Tourneur
Produced byMaurice Tourneur
StarringLon Chaney
John Gilbert
Mildred Manning
Hardee Kirkland
CinematographyRené Guissart
Distributed byW. W. Hodkinson Corp.
Release date
  • January 21, 1923 (1923-01-21)
Running time
60 min.
CountryUSA
LanguagesSilent film
English intertitles

While Paris Sleeps (1923) is a film based on the novel The Glory of Love by Leslie Beresford (a.k.a. Pan), directed by Maurice Tourneur, and starring Lon Chaney and John Gilbert. The film is believed to be lost.

Synopsis

Henri Santados (Lon Chaney) is sculptor living in Paris. He's in love with his model, Bebe Larvache (Mildred Manning), who cares nothing for him. She meets a wealthy American, Dennis O'Keefe (John Gilbert), and they grow affectionate. A jealous Santados teams up with Father Marionette (Jack F. MacDonald), a wax museum owner, to get rid of O'Keefe. Meanwhile, O'Keefe's father (Hardee Kirkland), who objects to the relationship, convinces Larvache to leave O'Keefe for his own good. She requests at have one final night with Dennis at the Mardi Gras festival. O'Keefe goes to pick Larvache up at the studio, but Santados tricks her into a compromising position, which makes O'Keefe think she's cheating. Heartbroken, he leaves, and is captured by Marionette, who tortures him in the wax museum. Marionette calls Santados, and Larvache hears O'Keefe over the phone. A friend of O'Keefe, Georges Morier, (J. Farrell MacDonald) manages to find him in time, and rushes him to the hospital, where O'Keefe's father finally consents to the marriage [1]

Background

Filmed in 1920 but not released until 1923.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Jon, Mirsalis. "While Paris Sleeps (1923)". The Lon Chaney Home Page. Retrieved 27 July 2014.