Shadows of Paris

Shadows of Paris is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by Herbert Brenon and starring Pola Negri, Charles de Rochefort, and Huntley Gordon. The screenplay involves a young woman who rises from an apache dancer to become a wealthy woman in post-World War I Paris.[1] It was based on the play Mon Homme by Francis Carco and André Picard.

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Shadows of Paris
Film poster
Directed byHerbert Brenon
Written byFrederick J. Jackson
Eve Unsell
Based onMon Homme
by Francis Carco and André Picard
StarringPola Negri
Charles de Rochefort
Huntley Gordon
Adolphe Menjou
CinematographyBert Baldridge
Production
company
Distributed byParamount Pictures (US)
Sascha Film (Austria)
Release date
February 17, 1924
Running time
70 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

Cast

Preservation

With no copies of Shadows of Paris located in any film archives,[2] it is a lost film. Only a minute of footage survives in the Paramount compilation short Fashions in Love (1936).[3]

References

Bibliography

  • Basinger, Jeanine. Silent Stars. Wesleyan University Press, 2000. ISBN 0-8195-6451-6


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