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Bella Donna (1915 film)

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1915 film by Edwin Stanton Porter, Hugh Ford
Bella Donna
Contemporary newspaper advertisement.
Directed byEdwin S. Porter
Hugh Ford
Based onBella Donna
by Robert Smythe Hichens
Bella Donna
by James Bernard Fagan
Produced byAdolph Zukor
Charles Frohman
StarringPauline Frederick
Production
company
Famous Players–Lasky
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • November 15, 1915 (1915-11-15)
Running time50 minutes
CountryUnited States
Languagesilent (English intertitles)
Scene in the film, L to R: Julian L'Estrange, Betty Blythe(uncredited), Pauline Frederick.

Bella Donna is a 1915 American silent drama film produced by Famous Players–Lasky and the Charles Frohman Company, starring Pauline Frederick, and based on the 1912 play Bella Donna by James Bernard Fagan adapted from the 1909 novel of the same name by Robert Smythe Hichens.

In 1912, Alla Nazimova starred in a Broadway stage version which ran for 72 performances. A second version of the novel and play was filmed in 1923 starring Pola Negri.

Plot

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Cast

Preservation status

The 1915 version is now considered to be a lost film.

See also

References

  1. Tibbetts, John C. (1985). The American Theatrical Film: Stages in Development. Popular Press. p. 70. ISBN 0-879-72289-4.
  2. Parish, James Robert; Stanke, Don E. (1975). The Debonairs. Arlington House. p. 50. ISBN 0-870-00293-7.
  3. The Pauline Frederick webpage, Bella Donna

External links

Films directed by Edwin S. Porter
Films directed by Hugh Ford
Film adaptations of Robert Hichens' Bella Donna


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