Lily of the Dust
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by Hermann Sudermann The Song of Songs (play)
by Edward Sheldon
Jesse L. Lasky
| Lily of the Dust | |
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| Directed by | Dimitri Buchowetzki |
| Written by | Paul Bern (scenario) |
| Based on | Das hohe Lied (novel) by Hermann Sudermann The Song of Songs (play) by Edward Sheldon |
| Produced by | Adolph Zukor Jesse L. Lasky |
| Starring | Pola Negri Ben Lyon |
| Cinematography | Alvin Wyckoff |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 7 reels, 6,811 feet |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
Lily of the Dust is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki, starring Pola Negri, produced by Famous Players–Lasky, and distributed by Paramount Pictures.[1][2] This movie was based on the 1908 novel The Song of Songs (German: Das hohe Lied) by Hermann Sudermann and the 1914 Broadway play The Song of Songs by Edward Sheldon.[3]
This film is a remake of the American silent film The Song of Songs (1918).
Cast
- Pola Negri as Lily
- Ben Lyon as Lieutenant Prell
- Noah Beery as Colonel Mertzbach
- Raymond Griffith as Karl Dehnecke
- Jeanette Daudet as Julia
- William J. Kelly as Walter von Prell
- Alan George in an Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Production
Negri was happy working with director Buchowetzki, who had also directed her in Men (1924) and in the German film Sappho (1921), which had been released in the U.S. as Mad Love, as her performances turned out well in his films.[4] Buchowetzki would later direct her once more in the romantic drama film The Crown of Lies (1926).
