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1913 American film

Sapho
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Directed by	Lucius Henderson
Written by	Daniel Carson Goodman
Based on	novel, Sappho, by Alphonse Daudet and Adolphe Belot [fr]
Produced by	Majestic Motion Picture Company
Starring	Florence Roberts Shelley Hull
Distributed by	State Rights (*World's Special Films)
Release date	October 1913 (1913-10)
Running time	6 reels
Country	USA
Languages	Silent; English titles

Sapho is a lost 1913 silent film feature drama directed by Lucius Henderson and is based on the novel by Alphonse Daudet and its stage adaptation by Daudet and Adolphe Belot. It stars stage actress Florence Roberts and Shelley Hull. It was produced by the Majestic Motion Picture Company and released by World's Special Films. As with Queen Elizabeth (1912) and Resurrection (1912), the film was one of the first features to star a major actress known by name. It competed with a four-reel French film that same year, 1913.

Sapho as a play, written by Clyde Fitch, was produced by Olga Nethersole on Broadway in 1900 to acclaim but also tinged with scandal as the play ran afoul of the New York Police Department, who shut it down for a time and arrested its stars Olga Nethersole and Hamilton Revelle.

The play was next filmed in 1917 as Sapho starring Pauline Frederick.

Cast

Florence Roberts - Fanny Le Grand/Sapho
Shelley Hull - Jean
Arthur Cadwell Jr. - Joseph
Lamar Johnstone - *uncredited

References

The Library of Congress/FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:Sapho
"Silent Era : Progressive Silent Film List". www.SilentEra.com. Retrieved September 9, 2017.
The AFI Catalog of Feature Films:Sapho
"Silent Era : Progressive Silent Film List". www.SilentEra.com. Retrieved September 9, 2017.
League, The Broadway. "Sapho – Broadway Play – Original - IBDB". www.IBDB.com. Retrieved September 9, 2017.

External links

Sapho at IMDb.com

v t e Films directed by Lucius J. Henderson
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Films directed by Lucius J. Henderson

v t e Sappho by Alphonse Daudet
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Stage	Sapho (1897 opera) Sapho (1900 play)

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