Dusk to Dawn is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by King Vidor and starring Florence Vidor. A premiere was held on September 2, 1922, at the Capitol Theatre in New York City.
Plot An Indian maid and American girl (both played by Florence Vidor) share a single soul which shifts between them each day when they are awake.
Cast Florence Vidor as Marjorie Latham / Aziza Jack Mulhall as Philip Randall Truman Van Dyke as Ralph Latham James Neill as John Latham Lydia Knott as Mrs. Latham Herbert Fortier as Mark Randall Norris Johnson as Babette Nellie Anderson as Marua Sidney Franklin as Nadar Gungi Peter Burke as Itjah Nyhal Singh
Production Dusk to Dawn would mark the final professional collaboration between King Vidor and Florence Vidor. By the early 1920s, Florence Vidor had emerged as a major film star in her own right and wished to pursue her career independently of her spouse. The couple divorced in 1926, and shortly thereafter Florence married violinist Jascha Heifetz Baxter 1976, p. 14-15, p. 18, marriage to Boardman
Theme Based on a novel The Shuttle Soul by Katherine Hill, the story dramatizes the far Eastern concepts of “migrating souls” advanced by Theopism popular in the United States during the 1920s. Vidor may have identified with Theophist methods of faith healing that were compatible with his Christian Science principles, encouraging positive thinking over medical interventions.Durgnat and Simmon 1988 p. 30, p. 38
Preservation Dawn to Dusk is currently considered a lost film. In February 2021, the film was cited by the National Film Preservation Board on their Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films list.
Footnotes
References Baxter, John. 1976. King Vidor. Simon & Schuster, Inc. Monarch Film Studies. LOC Card Number 75-23544. Durgnat, Raymond and Simmon, Scott. 1988. King Vidor, American. University of California Press, Berkeley.
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