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Originally Posted by Beaudry
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Somehow I doubt that the title
The Dumb Girl of Portici would go over so well for a film made today.
Marc Wanamaker/Bison Archives/www.answers.com
Caption per answers.com: "[Ballerina] Anna Pavlova’s undistinguished foray into Hollywood in
1915 to star in
The Dumb Girl of Portici at Universal Pictures under female director Lois Weber.
That’s Pavlova getting manhandled on the left. At the far right stands Weber, megaphone in
her hand."
filmreference.com
Per answers.com: "
Dumb Girl of Portici is famous today as the film in which Boris Karloff made his movie debut. This 'fact' is open to debate: Karloff himself had no memories of the film's star, flamboyant dancing diva Anna Pavlova, and [a] bow-legged extra in the crowd scenes, photographed from behind, may or may not be 'our Boris.'... [T]he film's storyline is based upon Daniel Francois Esprit's opera
Masaniello. Anna Pavlova plays Fenella, the surprisingly non-dancing heroine, in this epic romantic tragedy."
Noir and Chick Flicks/dawnschickflicks.blogspot.com
In the cast of
The Dumb Girl of Portici was also Lois Wilson
(right), who performed in 150 movies, including the role of
Daisy in the first film version of
The Great Gatsby (1926).
She acted with such leading male stars as Rudolph Valentino
and John Gilbert, and even in talkies with our 40th President
(
The Girl From Jones Beach, 1949). I really only include
this picture because of the classic bungalow background.