Lily of the Dust is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki, starring Pola Negri, produced by Famous Players–Lasky, and distributed by Paramount Pictures.Progressive Silent Film List: Lily of the Dust at silentera.comThe American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30 by The American Film Institute (1971) This movie was based on the 1908 novel The Song of Songs (German: ) by Hermann Sudermann and the 1914 Broadway play The Song of Songs by Edward Sheldon.The Song of Songs, play version of Lily of the Dust, as produced on Broadway at Eltinge 42nd Street Theatre December 22, 1914 to June 1915, 191 performances; IBDb.com
This film is a remake of the American silent film The Song of Songs (1918).
Plot
Cast
Production Negri was happy working with director Buchowetzki, who had also directed her in Men (1924) and in the German film Sappho (1921), which had been released in the U.S. as Mad Love, as her performances turned out well in his films. Buchowetzki would later direct her once more in the romantic drama film The Crown of Lies (1926).
Censorship Before the film could be exhibited in Kansas, the Kansas Board of Review required the elimination of the scene where a man's corset is being laced up.
Preservation With no copies of Lily of the Dust located in any film archives, it is a lost film.
References
External links
Lily of the Dust lobby poster Stills at silentfilmstillarchive.com