One Wonderful Night is a lost 1914 American silent mystery drama film starring Francis X. Bushman and Beverly Bayne, at the time a romantic screen couple. It was produced by the Chicago-based Essanay Studios.The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1911-20 by The American Film Institute, c.1988Progressive Silent Film List: One Wonderful Night at silentera.com
The same story was later filmed in 1922 at Universal with Herbert Rawlinson.
Cast Francis X. Bushman as John Delancey Curtis Beverly Bayne as Lady Hermione John Cossar as Horace P. Curtis Helen Dunbar as Mrs. Horace P. Curtis Lillian Drew as Marcelle Howard Watrous as Henry R. Hunter Thomas Commerford as The Earl of Vallefort Rapley Holmes as Count Vassilan Leo White as Jean de Curtois E. J. Babille as Antonie Lamotte (credited as Edward Babille) Charles Hitchcock as Gregory Martiny Robert Bolder as Mr. Schmidt M.C. Von Betz as Ferdinand Rossi
Reception Motion Picture News reviewer C.J. Verhalen felt very positive about the film, calling it "something extraordinary." The reviewer said Francis X. Bushman's acting was some of his best, the production was "in harmony with the story," and praised the story as being "interesting throughout."
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allmovie/Synopsis Sheet music covers for the film