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The Spanish Dancer

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'The Spanish Dancer' is a 1923 American silent costume epic starring Pola Negri as a gypsy fortune teller, Antonio Moreno as a romantic count, and Wallace Beery as the king of Spain. The film was directed by Herbert Brenon and also features a five-year-old Anne Shirley, appearing under the name "Dawn O'Day." The film survives today.[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/S/SpanishDancer1923.html Progressive Silent Film List: 'The Spanish Dancer'] at silentera.com

Restored by the EYE Film Institute in the Netherlands, the movie was shown at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. on August 5, 2012, accompanied by the 1916 Lois Weber film 'Shoes'.

The film is essentially the same story as Mary Pickford's 'Rosita' which was filmed around the same time as 'The Spanish Dancer' with Negri's old colleague from Germany Ernst Lubitsch directing. Negri's 'The Spanish Dancer' was considered the better film.

Cast



*Pola Negri as Gypsy fortune teller

*Antonio Moreno as Don Cesar de Bazan

*Wallace Beery as King Philip IV

*Kathlyn Williams as Queen Isabel of Bourbon

*Gareth Hughes as Lazarillo

*Adolphe Menjou as Don Salluste

*Edward Kipling as Marquis de Rotundo

*Henry Vogel as Olivares

*Anne Shirley as Don Balthazar Carlos (billed as Dawn O'Day)

*Charles A. Stevenson as Cardinal's Ambassador

*Robert Agnew as Juan

References




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