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La Bohème (1926 film)

La Bohème is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by King Vidor, based on the 1896 opera La bohème by Giacomo Puccini. Lillian Gish and John Gilbert star in a tragic romance in which a tubercular seamstress sacrifices her life so that her lover, a bohemian playwright, might pen his masterpiece. Gish, at the height of her influence with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, asserted significant control over the production, determining the story, director, cast, cinematography, and costume design.[1] In February 2020, the film was shown at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival, as part of a retrospective dedicated to King Vidor's career.[2]

La Bohème

King Vidor

Fred de Gresac
(screenplay)
Harry Behn
Ray Doyle
(continuity)
William M. Conselman
Ruth Cummings
(titles)

Scènes de la vie de bohème
(1847–49) novel
by Henri Murger

Irving Thalberg

Lillian Gish
John Gilbert

Hendrik Sartov

Hugh Wynn

William Axt (uncredited)
David Mendoza (uncredited)

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

  • February 24, 1926 (1926-02-24)

95 minutes

United States

Silent (English intertitles)

Reception[edit]

The film made a profit of $377,000.[18]

Lillian Gish filmography

Baxter, John. 1970. Hollywood in the Thirties. International Film Guide Series. Paperback Library, New York. LOC Card Number 68–24003.

Baxter, John. 1976. King Vidor. Simon & Schuster, Inc. Monarch Film Studies. LOC Card Number 75–23544.

and Kobal, John. 1979. Hollywood: The Pioneers. Alfred A. Knopf Inc. A Borzoi Book, New York. ISBN 0-394-50851-3

Brownlow, Kevin

and Simmon, Scott. 1988. King Vidor, American. University of California Press, Berkeley. ISBN 0-520-05798-8

Durgnat, Raymond

Landazuri, Roberto. 2009. Bardelys the Magnificent. San Francisco Silent Film Festival (SFSFF) Retrieved 28 May 2020.

https://silentfilm.org/bardelys-the-magnificent/

Landazuri, Margarita. 2011. La Bohème. San Francisco Silent Film Festival (SFSFF), Winter 2011. Retrieved 28 May 2020

https://silentfilm.org/la-boheme/

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: score to accompany this film by William Axt at the International Music Score Library Project

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