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The Two Orphans (1915 film)

The Two Orphans was a 1915 American silent romantic drama film directed by Herbert Brenon and starring Theda Bara. This film was based on the 1872 French play Les deux orphelines, by Adolphe D'Ennery and Eugene Cormon[1] which was translated into English by N. Hart Jackson.[2] It was the play that was being performed at the time the Brooklyn Theater Fire broke out.[3] The film was made by Fox Film Corporation and was partially shot on location in Québec, Canada.[4] It is now considered to be lost.[1]

The Two Orphans

Herbert Brenon

  • September 5, 1915 (1915-09-05)

United States

Silent
English intertitles

In 1921 D. W. Griffith made a second adaptation of the play, Orphans of the Storm, starring Dorothy Gish and Lillian Gish.[5]

as Henriette

Theda Bara

as Louise

Jean Sothern

as Chevalier de Vaudrey

William E. Shay

as Pierre

Herbert Brenon

as Mother Frochard

Gertrude Berkeley

Frank Goldsmith as Marquis de Presles

E. L. Fernandez as Jacques

Sheridan Block as Count de Liniere

as Countess De Liniere

Mrs. Cecil Raleigh

List of lost films

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The Two Orphans