''Manon Lescaut'' is a 1914 American silent

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-g ...

directed by

Herbert Hall Winslow Herbert Hall Winslow (November 23, 1865 – June 1, 1930) was an American stage actor and playwright. He acted in and directed the 1914 silent film ''Manon Lescaut''. Winslow was born in Keokuk, Iowa. More than 100 plays that Winslow wrote were ...

and starring

Lina Cavalieri Natalina "Lina" Cavalieri (25 December 1874 – 7 February 1944) was an Italian operatic dramatic soprano, actress, and monologist. Biography Lina Cavalieri was born on Christmas Day at Viterbo, some north of Rome. She lost her parents at the a ...

Lucien Muratore Lucien Muratore (29 August 1876 – 16 July 1954, in Paris) was a French actor and operatic tenor, particularly associated with the French repertory. Life and career Lucien Muratore was born Marseille to Italian parents from Piedmont. He trai ...

and Dorothy Arthur.Fryer & Usova p.148 It is an adaptation of the

Abbé Prévost Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles ( , , ; 1 April 169725 November 1763), usually known simply as the Abbé Prévost, was a French priest, author, and novelist. Life and works He was born at Hesdin, Artois, and first appears with the full nam ...

's novel ''

Manon Lescaut ''The Story of the Chevalier des Grieux and Manon Lescaut'' ( ) is a novel by Antoine François Prévost. Published in 1731, it is the seventh and final volume of ''Mémoires et aventures d'un homme de qualité'' (''Memoirs and Adventures of a Ma ...

'' (1731). It is now considered a

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as Manon Lescaut *

as Chevalier des Grieux * Dorothy Arthur as Fifine *

William L. Abingdon William Lepper Pilgrim (stage name Abingdon; 2 May 1859 – 17 May 1918) was an English stage actor who settled in the United States. As well as enjoying a lengthy theatre career, he appeared in four silent films during the 1910s. Biography Wil ...

as Baron de Bretigny * Charles Hammond as Abbe Tiberge * Frank H. Westerton as Lescaut * Henry Weaver as Rochfort * Frank Hardy as Synnelet *

as Edouarde * Walter Cecil as Governor of St. Lazare

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* Paul Fryer, Olga Usova. ''Lina Cavalieri: The Life of Opera's Greatest Beauty, 1874-1944''. McFarland, 2003.

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