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Director
  
Maurice Tourneur

Cinematography
  
Rene Guissart

Country
  
USA

6/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Horror

Duration
  

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Language
  
Silent film English intertitles

Release date
  
January 21, 1923 (1923-01-21)

Based on
  
The Glory of Love  by Leslie Beresford

Writer
  
Leslie Beresford (story), Wyndham Gittens

Cast
  
Lon Chaney
(Henri Santodos),
Mildred Manning
(Bebe Larvache),
John Gilbert
(Dennis O'Keefe)

Genres
  
Silent film, Horror, Black-and-white

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. (for the 1932 Allan Dwan film see While Paris Sleeps (1932 film))

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While Paris Sleeps (1923) is a film based on the novel The Glory of Love by Leslie Beresford (a.k.a. Pan), directed by Maurice Tourneur, and starring Lon Chaney and John Gilbert. The film is believed to be lost.

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Synopsis

Henri Santados (Lon Chaney) is sculptor living in Paris. He's in love with his model, Bebe Larvache (Mildred Manning), who cares nothing for him. She meets a wealthy American, Dennis O'Keefe (John Gilbert), and they grow affectionate. A jealous Santados teams up with Father Marionette (Jack F. MacDonald), a wax museum owner, to get rid of O'Keefe. Meanwhile, O'Keefe's father (Hardee Kirkland), who objects to the relationship, convinces Larvache to leave O'Keefe for his own good. She requests at have one final night with Dennis at the Mardi Gras festival. O'Keefe goes to pick Larvache up at the studio, but Santados tricks her into a compromising position, which makes O'Keefe think she's cheating. Heartbroken, he leaves, and is captured by Marionette, who tortures him in the wax museum. Marionette calls Santados, and Larvache hears O'Keefe over the phone. A friend of O'Keefe, Georges Morier, (J. Farrell MacDonald) manages to find him in time, and rushes him to the hospital, where O'Keefe's father finally consents to the marriage

Background

Filmed in 1920 but not released until 1923.

References

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