Bella Donna is a 1915 American silent drama film produced by Famous Players–Lasky and the Charles Frohman Company, starring Pauline Frederick, and based on the 1912 play Bella Donna by James Bernard Fagan adapted from the 1909 novel of the same name by Robert Smythe Hichens.
In 1912, Alla Nazimova starred in a Broadway stage version which ran for 72 performances. A second version of the novel and play was filmed in 1923 starring Pola Negri.
Plot
Cast Pauline Frederick as Bella Donna Thomas Holding as Nigel Armine Julian L'Estrange as Baroudi Eugene Ormonde as Dr. Isaacson George Majeroni as Ibraham Edmund Shalet as Hamza Helen Sinnott as The Maid Betty Blythe as A Dancer (uncredited)
Preservation Bella Donna is currently presumed lost. In February of 2021, the film was cited by the National Film Preservation Board on their Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films list.
See also Edwin S. Porter filmography List of lost films
References
External links
Bella Donna at silentera.com