While Paris Sleeps
6.2 /10 1 Votes
Director Maurice Tourneur Cinematography Rene Guissart Country USA | 6/10 IMDb Genre Horror Duration | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
![]() | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Related Maurice Tourneur movies |
. (for the 1932 Allan Dwan film see While Paris Sleeps (1932 film))
Contents
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.
While paris sleeps you ve become the one i hate demo
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
While Paris Sleeps WikipediaWhile Paris Sleeps IMDb While Paris Sleeps themoviedb.org