''The Safety Curtain'' is a 1918 American silent melodrama 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 era. A major box-office draw for more than a decade, her career reached a peak in the early 1920s, when she ranked among the most pop ...

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

Cast

as Puck * Eugene O'Brien as Captain Merryon *

Anders Randolf Anders Randolf (December 18, 1870 – July 2, 1930) was a Danish American actor in American films from 1913 to 1930. Biography Anders was born in Viborg, Denmark, where he became a professional soldier in the Danish army and a world-class swo ...

as Vulcan (credited as Anders Randolph) * Gladden James as Sylvester *

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as Ballet Girl

Preservation status

This film is preserved at EYE Institut, aka Filmmuseum in the Netherlands and at

UCLA Film and Television Archive The UCLA Film & Television Archive is a visual arts organization focused on the preservation, study, and appreciation of film and television, based at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Also a nonprofit exhibition venue, the ar ...

.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