The Black Butterfly

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The Black Butterfly
Lobby poster
Directed byBurton L. King
Written byOlga Petrova (story)
Lillian Case Russell (story)
Wallace C. Clifton (scenario)
StarringOlga Petrova
CinematographyAndre Barlatier - French Wikipedia)
Production
companies
Popular Plays and Players
Distributed byMetro Pictures
Release date
  • December 4, 1916 (1916-12-04)
Running time
5 reels
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)
Scene from the film.
Newspaper advertisement

The Black Butterfly is a lost[1] 1916 American silent drama film starring Olga Petrova and released by Metro Pictures.[2] The last known copy was destroyed in the 1965 MGM vault fire. Extant footage was posted online in 2019.[3]

Cast[edit]

  • Olga Petrova as Sonia Smirnov/Marie, the convent girl
  • Mahlon Hamilton as Alan Hall
  • Anthony Merlo as Girard
  • Count Lewenhaupt as Lachaise
  • Edward Brennan as Lord Braislin
  • Violet Reed as Lady Constance Braislin
  • John Hopkins as Don Luis Maredo
  • Morgan Jones as Peter, father of Sonia
  • Norman Kerry as Vladimir (as Norman Kaiser)
  • Roy Pilcher as Gaston Duval
  • Evelyn Dumo as Ciel, Sonia's maid

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Black Butterfly". Lcweb2.loc.gov. 13 January 2018. Retrieved 13 January 2018.
  2. ^ "Detail view of Movies Page". Afi.com. Retrieved 13 January 2018.
  3. ^ "IDENTIFIED: "THE BLACK BUTTERFLY" (1916)". .flickr.com. 20 November 2019. Retrieved 18 December 2019.

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