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Black Orchids
Also known as The Fatal Orchids in the United Kingdom
(1917) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by Rex Ingram

Cast: Cleo Madison [Marie de Severac / Zoraida], Dick La Reno [Emile de Severac], Francis McDonald [George Renoir / Ivan de Maupin], Wedgewood Nowell [Marquis de Chantal], Howard Crampton [Sebastian de Maupin], William Dyer [L’Hibour Blanc proprietor], John George [Ali Bara], Joe Martin [Haitim-Tai], Jean Hersholt

Bluebird Photoplays, Incorporated, production; distributed by Bluebird Photoplays, Incorporated, through The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated. / Scenario by Rex Ingram, from a screen story by Cleo Madison. Cinematography by Duke Hayward. / Released 1 January 1917. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Ingram’s directorial debut. The film was remade by Ingram as Trifling Women (1922).

Drama: Romance.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 4 September 2018.

References: Hirschhorn-Universal p. 22; Spehr-American p. 273 : Website-IMDb.

 
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