The Spanish Dancer
About The Spanish Dancer
Maritana dances in the squares and tells fortunes. She and Don César de Bazan are pulled into the Spanish court. He is sentenced to die. She uses the court to get him out and to win a place for herself.
Cast & crew
More about The Spanish Dancer
Herbert Brenon directed and produced the Famous Players-Lasky picture for Paramount. June Mathis and Beulah Marie Dix wrote the treatment and scenario from the play Don César de Bazan by Adolphe d'Ennery and Philippe François Pinel (Dumanoir). Helene Warne edited. Wikipedia dates the release November 4, 1923, and gives the length as 9 reels, 8,434 feet, about 90 to 100 minutes. Another listing gives October 7, 1923. The same story was filmed at the same time as Ernst Lubitsch's Rosita, with Mary Pickford.
Themes
Look
James Wong Howe photographed the costume picture.
Music
Silent, with English intertitles.
Preservation
The film survives. The EYE Filmmuseum restored a print.
Notes
- Pola Negri is Maritana. Antonio Moreno is Don César de Bazan. Wallace Beery is King Philip IV. Kathlyn Williams is Queen Isabel. Adolphe Menjou is Don Salluste. Gareth Hughes is Lazarillo.
- Anne Shirley, then billed as Dawn O'Day and about five, plays Don Balthazar Carlos.
- The EYE Filmmuseum in the Netherlands restored a print. It was shown at the National Gallery of Art in Washington on August 5, 2012, with Lois Weber's Shoes (1916).
Scenes
- Maritana dances for the crowd in the square.
- Don César is condemned, and she gets him clear of the court.
Influenced by
- Don César de Bazan, the play by d'Ennery and Dumanoir
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (The Spanish Dancer (1923).webm)
