The Masked Woman | |
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Directed by | Silvano Balboni |
Written by | June Mathis (scenario) Gerald C. Duffy (intertitles) |
Based on | La Femme Masquee (1923) by Charles Méré [1] |
Produced by | First National Pictures |
Starring | Anna Q. Nilsson Holbrook Blinn Ruth Roland |
Cinematography | John W. Boyle |
Edited by | George McGuire [2] |
Distributed by | First National Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 6 reels, 5442 ft. |
Country | United States |
Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
The Masked Woman is a 1927 American silent melodrama film produced and distributed by First National Pictures. Filmed in France, it was the last screenwriting effort of famed June Mathis, who died in 1927, and was directed by her husband Silvano Balboni, who was usually a cinematographer. The film stars Anna Q. Nilsson, Holbrook Blinn, and serial veteran Ruth Roland. [3] [4]
With no prints of The Masked Woman located in any film archives, [5] it is a lost film. [6]
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