A Modern Salome is a lost The Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: A Modern Salome 1920 American silent drama film directed by Leonce Perret and starring Hope Hampton. It was produced and distributed by Metro Pictures. A Modern Salome at silentera.com The film is based on the 1891 Oscar Wilde play Salome.
Plot A display advert of the time states: "Her fancy swept her back through the ages, and she was dancing before king Herod for the head of John the Baptist. Yet she was a modern woman, a hot-house product of Twentieth Century Society."Display advert, San Bernardino Daily Sun, San Bernardino, California, Tuesday May 4, 1920, Volume XLVII, Number 65, page 2.
Cast Hope Hampton as Virginia Hastings Sidney Mason as Robert Monti Percy Standing as James Vandam Arthur Donaldson as Walter Greene Wyndham Standing as Harry Torrence Agnes Ayres as Helen Torrence
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