The Devil Dancer

The Devil Dancer
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Directed by	Fred Niblo
Written by	Alice D. G. Miller (screenplay) Edwin Justus Mayer (intertitles)
Story by	Harry Hervey
Produced by	Samuel Goldwyn
Starring	Gilda Gray Clive Brook Anna May Wong
Cinematography	George Barnes Thomas Brannigan
Production company	Samuel Goldwyn Productions
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date	November 19, 1927 (1927-11-19)
Running time	73 min.
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

The Devil Dancer is a 1927 American silent romantic drama film directed by Fred Niblo and produced by Samuel Goldwyn. The film stars Gilda Gray.

For his work on this film, The Magic Flame and Sadie Thompson , cinematographer George Barnes was nominated for the first Academy Award for Best Cinematography at the 1st Academy Awards ceremony in 1929. ^[1]

Cast

• Gilda Gray as Takla (The Devil Dancer)
• Clive Brook as Stephen Athelstan
• Anna May Wong as Sada
• Serge Temoff as Beppo
• Michael Vavitch as Hassim
• Sōjin Kamiyama as Sadik Lama
• Anne Schaefer as Tana
• Albert Conti as Arnold Guthrie
• Martha Mattox as Isabel
• Kalla Pasha as Toy
• James B. Leong as The Grand Lama
• William H. Tooker as Lathrop
• Claire Du Brey as Audrey
• Nora Cecil as Julia
• Barbara Tennant as The White Woman
• Herbert Evans (uncredited minor part)
• Jack Harvey (uncredited minor part)
• Ura Mita (uncredited minor part)
• Clarissa Selwynne (uncredited minor part)

Preservation

The Devil Dancer is now considered a lost film. ^[2]

References

1. "The 1st Academy Awards (1929) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences . Retrieved November 9, 2013.
2. Progressive Silent Film List: The Devil Dancer at silentera.com

External links

• The Devil Dancer at IMDb
• Lobby card
• Still at fineartamerica.com
• United Artists Press Book on the Internet Archive