The Devil Dancer
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The Devil Dancer | |
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Directed by | Fred Niblo |
Written by | Alice D. G. Miller (screenplay) Edwin Justus Mayer (intertitles) |
Story by | Harry Hervey |
Produced by | Samuel Goldwyn |
Cinematography | George Barnes Thomas Brannigan |
Production company | |
Distributed by | United Artists |
Release date |
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Running time | 73 min. |
Country | United States |
Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
The Devil Dancer is a 1927 American silent romantic drama film directed by Fred Niblo and produced by Samuel Goldwyn. The film stars Gilda Gray.
For his work on this film, The Magic Flame and Sadie Thompson, cinematographer George Barnes was nominated for the first Academy Award for Best Cinematography at the 1st Academy Awards ceremony in 1929.[1]
Cast
- Gilda Gray as Takla (The Devil Dancer)
- Clive Brook as Stephen Athelstan
- Anna May Wong as Sada
- Serge Temoff as Beppo
- Michael Vavitch as Hassim
- Sōjin Kamiyama as Sadik Lama
- Anne Schaefer as Tana
- Albert Conti as Arnold Guthrie
- Martha Mattox as Isabel
- Kalla Pasha as Toy
- James B. Leong as The Grand Lama
- William H. Tooker as Lathrop
- Claire Du Brey as Audrey
- Nora Cecil as Julia
- Barbara Tennant as The White Woman
- Herbert Evans (uncredited minor part)
- Jack Harvey (uncredited minor part)
- Ura Mita (uncredited minor part)
- Clarissa Selwynne (uncredited minor part)
Preservation
The Devil Dancer is now considered a lost film.[2]
References
- ^ "The 1st Academy Awards (1929) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. Retrieved November 9, 2013.
- ^ Progressive Silent Film List: The Devil Dancer at silentera.com
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to The Devil Dancer (film).
- The Devil Dancer at IMDb
- Synopsis at AllMovie
- Lobby card
- Still at fineartamerica.com
- United Artists Press Book on the Internet Archive
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- Articles with short description
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- 1927 films
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- 1927 romantic drama films
- American silent feature films
- American black-and-white films
- Lost American romantic drama films
- Samuel Goldwyn Productions films
- Films directed by Fred Niblo
- 1927 lost films
- 1920s American films
- Silent American romantic drama films
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