''The Kreutzer Sonata'' is a
lost
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History
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1915 American
silent romantic drama film directed by
Herbert Brenon
Herbert Brenon (born Alexander Herbert Reginald St. John Brenon; 13 January 1880 – 21 June 1958) was an Irish-born U.S. film director, actor and screenwriter during the era of silent films through the 1930s.
Brenon was among the early film ...
and costarring
Nance O'Neil
Gertrude Lamson (October 8, 1874 – February 7, 1965), known professionally as Nance O'Neil or Nancy O'Neil, was an American stage and film actress who performed in plays in various theaters around the world but worked predominantly in the Unite ...
,
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 ...
, and William H. Shay. The film was based on the 1902 play of the same name by
Jacob Gordin
Jacob Michailovitch Gordin (Yiddish: יעקב מיכאַילאָװיטש גאָרדין; May 1, 1853 – June 11, 1909) was a Russian-born American playwright active in the early years of Yiddish theater. He is known for introducing realism an ...
, which was based on
Leo Tolstoy
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's
1889 novella. 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 ...
, it was shot at the company's studio in
Fort Lee, New Jersey
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As of the 2020 U.S. census, the borough's population was 40,191. As of the 2010 U.S. census, t ...
.
Cast
*
Nance O'Neil
Gertrude Lamson (October 8, 1874 – February 7, 1965), known professionally as Nance O'Neil or Nancy O'Neil, was an American stage and film actress who performed in plays in various theaters around the world but worked predominantly in the Unite ...
as Miriam Friedlander
*
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 Celia Friedlander
* William E. Shay as Gregor Randar
* Mimi Yvonne
*
Henry Bergman
Henry Bergman (February 23, 1868 – October 22, 1946) was an American actor of stage and film, known for his long association with Charlie Chaplin.
Biography
Born in San Francisco, California, Bergman acted in live theatre, appearing in ''Hen ...
as Raphael Friedlander
* Sidney Cushing as G. Belushoff
*
Maude Turner Gordon
Maude Turner Gordon (November 10, 1868 – January 12, 1940) was an American actress who appeared in 81 films between 1914 and 1938.
Biography
Born in Franklin, Indiana, Gordon was the daughter of Alexander and Nancy Wright Turner. She wa ...
as Rebecca Friedlander
* John Daly Murphy as Sam Friedlander
*
Anne Sutherland as Olga Belushoff
Reception
''The Kreutzer Sonata'' was released two months after ''
A Fool There Was'', the first film that featured Theda Bara in the role of a
femme fatale. Bara later confessed that she did not enjoy filming and was also dissatisfied that Fox had cast her in yet another "
" role. Despite Bara's dissatisfaction, she earned mostly good reviews for her performance and the film was a hit.
See also
*
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 ...
References
External links
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1915 films
1915 romantic drama films
1915 lost films
Fox Film films
Lost American romantic drama films
American silent feature films
American black-and-white films
American films based on plays
Films based on The Kreutzer Sonata
Films directed by Herbert Brenon
Films shot in Fort Lee, New Jersey
English-language romantic drama films
1910s American films
Silent American romantic drama films
1910s English-language films