''Evangeline'' is a 1929 American
silent film
A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) or key lines of dialogue may, when ...
directed by
Edwin Carewe
Edwin Carewe (March 3, 1883 – January 22, 1940) was an American motion picture director, actor, producer, and screenwriter. His birth name was Jay John Fox; he was born in Gainesville, Texas.
Career
After brief studies at the Universities of ...
and starring
Dolores del RÃo
MarÃa de los Dolores Asúnsolo y López Negrete (3 August 1904 – 11 April 1983), known professionally as Dolores del RÃo (), was a Mexican actress. With a career spanning more than 50 years, she is regarded as the first major female Latin Am ...
. An
Arthur Hopkins
Arthur Hopkins (October 4, 1878 – March 22, 1950) was a well-known Broadway theater director and producer in the early twentieth century. Between 1912 and 1948, he produced and staged more than 80 plays – an average of more than two per year â ...
produced play made it to Broadway in 1913. It is the last silent film version of the 1847
poem of the same name by
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet and educator. His original works include "Paul Revere's Ride", ''The Song of Hiawatha'', and ''Evangeline''. He was the first American to completely transl ...
. This film was released with a Vitaphone disc selection of dialogue, music, and sound effects.
''Evangeline'' as produced on Broadway at the Park Theatre, beginning October 4, 1913; IBDb.com
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Cast
*Dolores del RÃo
MarÃa de los Dolores Asúnsolo y López Negrete (3 August 1904 – 11 April 1983), known professionally as Dolores del RÃo (), was a Mexican actress. With a career spanning more than 50 years, she is regarded as the first major female Latin Am ...
as Evangeline
*Roland Drew
Roland Drew (born Walter Goss; August 4, 1900 – March 17, 1988) was an American actor.
Biography
Born in 1900 in New York City, Drew made his first film in 1926 and continued to work until the 1940s. Noted primarily as Dolores del RÃo' ...
as Gabriel
* Alec B. Francis as Father Felician
* Donald Reed as Baptiste
*Paul McAllister as Benedict Bellefontaine
*James A. Marcus
James A. Marcus (January 21, 1867 – October 15, 1937) was an American actor. He appeared in more than 100 films between 1915 and 1937. He was born in New York City. On October 15, 1937, Marcus died in Hollywood, California from a myocardi ...
as Basil
*George F. Marion
George Francis Marion Sr. (July 16, 1860 – November 30, 1945) was an American film and stage actor and director, known for ''Anna Christie'', both (1923) and (1930), and ''Death from a Distance'' (1935). Marion acted in 35 films between 19 ...
as Rene LeBlanc
*Bobby Mack as Michael
*Louis Payne
William Louis Payne (January 13, 1873 – August 14, 1953) was an American character actor of the silent and sound film eras, as well as legitimate theater.
Biography
Born in Pennsylvania, Payne's acting life began in the first decade of the 1 ...
as Governor-General
*Lee Shumway
Lee Shumway (March 4, 1884 – January 4, 1959), born Leonard Charles Shumway, was an American actor. He appeared in more than 400 films between 1909 and 1953. He was born in Salt Lake City, Utah and died in Los Angeles, California.
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as Colonel Winslow
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''Evangeline''; lobby poster
1929 films
American silent feature films
Films based on works by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Films directed by Edwin Carewe
1929 drama films
Silent American drama films
American black-and-white films
1920s English-language films
1920s American films
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