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A Modern Salome
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Wikipedia article
'A Modern Salome' is a lost[http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.7629/default.html The Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: 'A Modern Salome'] 1920 American silent comedy film directed by Leonce Perret and starring Hope Hampton. It was produced and distributed by Metro Pictures.[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/M/ModernSalome1920.html 'A Modern Salome' at silentera.com][http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=17813 The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: 'A Modern Salome'] The film is based on the 1891 Oscar Wilde play 'Salome'.
A display advert of the time states: "Her fancy swept her back through the ages, and she was dancing before king Herod for the head of John the Baptist. Yet she was a modern woman, a hot-house product of Twentieth Century Society."Display advert, 'San Bernardino Daily Sun', San Bernardino, California, Tuesday May 4, 1920, Volume XLVII, Number 65, page 2.
Cast
*Hope Hampton as Virginia Hastings
*Sidney Mason as Robert Monti
*Percy Standing as James Vandam
*Arthur Donaldson as Walter Greene
*Wyndham Standing as Harry Torrence
*Agnes Ayres as Helen Torrence
References
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