''The Eternal Sapho'' (also known as ''A Modern Sapho'' and ''The Eternal Sappho'')
is a 1916 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 ...
directed by
Bertram Bracken and starring
Theda Bara
Theda Bara ( ; born Theodosia Burr Goodman; July 29, 1885 – April 7, 1955) was an American silent film and stage actress.
Bara was one of the more popular actresses of the silent era and one of cinema's early sex symbols. Her femme fatal ...
. The film was loosely based on the 1881 French novel ''Sapho'', by
Alphonse Daudet
Alphonse Daudet (; 13 May 184016 December 1897) was a French novelist. He was the husband of Julia Daudet and father of Edmée, Léon and Lucien Daudet.
Early life
Daudet was born in Nîmes, France. His family, on both sides, belonged to the ...
. The film is now considered
lost.
''The Eternal Sapho'' was produced by
Fox Film Corporation
The Fox Film Corporation (also known as Fox Studios) was an American Independent film production studio formed by William Fox (1879–1952) in 1915, by combining his earlier Greater New York Film Rental Company and Box Office Attractions Film C ...
and shot at the Fox Studio in
Fort Lee, New Jersey
Fort Lee is a borough at the eastern border of Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, situated along the Hudson River atop the Palisades.
As of the 2020 U.S. census, the borough's population was 40,191. As of the 2010 U.S. census, t ...
. Some filming took place at the Marble House, a mansion located on a hill above 215th Street in New York.
["'On Location' -- East Coast and Metropolitan." ''Photoplay Magazine'', Dec. 1916, Vol. XI, No. 1, pp 36-42. Accessed: August 1, 2018.]
Cast
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Theda Bara
Theda Bara ( ; born Theodosia Burr Goodman; July 29, 1885 – April 7, 1955) was an American silent film and stage actress.
Bara was one of the more popular actresses of the silent era and one of cinema's early sex symbols. Her femme fatal ...
as Laura Bruffins
* James Cooley as Billy Malvin
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Walter Lewis as Mr. Marvin, Sr.
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Hattie Delaro
Hattie Delaro (1861 – April 18, 1941) was an American actress. She had a career in theater, then became an actress in silent film in the 1910s and 1920s.
Delaro was born in Brooklyn.
Delaro debuted on stage in 1881 at Brooklyn's Grand Ope ...
as Mrs. Marvin, Sr.
* Einar Linden as John Drummond
* Mary Martin as Mrs. Drummond
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Kittens Reichert
Kittens Reichert (March 3, 1910 – January 11, 1990) was an American child actress in silent films.
Biography
The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George C. Reichert, she was born Catherine Alma Reichert in Yonkers, New York, but was nicknamed "Kittens ...
as Drummond Child
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George MacQuarrie
George MacQuarrie (born as George Donald MacQuarrie; June 2, 1873 – April 1951), was an American actor of the silent era.
Biography
MacQuarrie was born in San Francisco, California in 1873 as George Donald MacQuarrie. He appeared in more ...
as Jack McCullough
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Warner Oland
Warner Oland (born Johan Verner Ölund; October 3, 1879 – August 6, 1938) was a Swedish-American actor. His career included time on Broadway and numerous film appearances. He is most remembered for playing several Chinese and Chinese-American ...
as H. Coudal
* Frank Norcross as Grubbins
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Caroline Harris as Mother Grubbins
See also
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List of lost films
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1937 Fox vault fire
The 1937 Fox vault fire was a major fire that broke out in a 20th Century-Fox film-storage facility in Little Ferry, New Jersey, United States, on July 9, 1937. Flammable nitrate film had previously contributed to several fires in film-industr ...
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List of Fox Film films
This is a list of feature films produced by the Fox Film Corporation, including those films produced by its corporate predecessor, the Box Office Attractions Company. Some of the later films in this list were produced by Fox Film, but were release ...
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1916 films
1916 drama films
1916 lost films
Fox Film films
Silent American drama films
American silent feature films
American black-and-white films
Films based on French novels
Films based on works by Alphonse Daudet
Films shot in Fort Lee, New Jersey
Lost American films
Lost drama films
Films directed by Bertram Bracken
1910s American films
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