The Devil Dancer
| The Devil Dancer | |
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 Lobby card | |
| 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
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 Kamiyamaas 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
- 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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