''The Safety Curtain'' is a 1918 American silent

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film directed by Sidney Franklin and starring

Norma Talmadge Norma Marie Talmadge (May 2, 1894 – December 24, 1957) was an American actress and film producer of the silent film, silent era. A major box-office draw for more than a decade, her career reached a peak in the early 1920s, when she ranked among ...

. Talmadge and her husband Joe Schenck produced the film and distributed through Select Pictures.

Cast

as Puck * Eugene O'Brien as Captain Merryon *

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as Vulcan (credited as Anders Randolph) *

Gladden James Gladden James (February 26, 1888 – August 28, 1948) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 180 films between 1911 and 1946. He was born in Zanesville, Ohio and died in Hollywood, California, from leukemia. Family In 1914 he ...

as Sylvester *

Lillian Hall Lillian or Lilian can refer to: People * Lillian (name) or Lilian, a given name Places * Lilian, Iran, a village in Markazi Province, Iran In the United States * Lillian, Alabama * Lillian, West Virginia * Lillian Township, Custer County, Ne ...

as Ballet Girl

Preservation status

This film is preserved at EYE Institut, aka

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in the Netherlands and at

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.The Safety Curtain; The Greta De Groat site ''The Norma Talmadge Website''
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Wayback Machine) 1918 films American silent feature films Films directed by Sidney Franklin Films based on works by Ethel M. Dell Films based on short fiction American black-and-white films Silent American drama films 1918 drama films Melodrama films Selznick Pictures films 1910s American films {{1910s-drama-film-stub