The Two Orphans (1915 film)

The Two Orphans was a 1915 American silent romantic drama film directed by Herbert Brenon and starring Theda Bara. This film was based on the 1872 French play Les deux orphelines, by Adolphe D'Ennery and Eugene Cormon[1] which was translated into English by N. Hart Jackson.[2] It was the play that was being performed at the time the Brooklyn Theater Fire broke out.[3] The film was made by Fox Film Corporation and was partially shot on location in Québec, Canada.[4] It is now considered to be lost.[1]

The Two Orphans
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Directed by	Herbert Brenon
Written by	Herbert Brenon
Based on	Les deux orphelines by Adolphe d'Ennery and Eugène Cormon
Starring	Theda Bara
Cinematography	Phil Rosen
Distributed by	Fox Film Corporation
Release date	September 5, 1915
Country	United States
Language	Silent English intertitles

In 1921 D. W. Griffith made a second adaptation of the play, Orphans of the Storm, starring Dorothy Gish and Lillian Gish.[5]

Cast

• Theda Bara as Henriette
• Jean Sothern as Louise
• William E. Shay as Chevalier de Vaudrey
• Herbert Brenon as Pierre
• Gertrude Berkeley as Mother Frochard
• Frank Goldsmith as Marquis de Presles
• E. L. Fernandez as Jacques
• Sheridan Block as Count de Liniere
• Mrs. Cecil Raleigh as Countess De Liniere

See also

• List of lost films

References

1. "Silent Era: The Two Orphans". silentera. Retrieved June 27, 2008.
2. "Some Great Old Plays" Munsey Magazine page 123, column 1
3. Zecher, Henry (2011). William Gillette, America's Sherlock Holmes. Xlibris Corporation. p. 99. ISBN 978-1-453-55582-8.
4. Golden, Eve (1996). Vamp: The Rise and Fall Of Theda Bara. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 61. ISBN 1-887-32200-0.
5. Brooks, Peter (1976). The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess : with a New Preface (2 ed.). Yale University Press. p. X. ISBN 0-300-06553-1.

External links

• The Two Orphans at IMDb