Black Butterflies is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by James W. Horne and starring Jobyna Ralston, Mae Busch, and Robert Frazer.Goble p. 690Progressive Silent Film List: Black Butterflies at silentera.com
Cast Jobyna Ralston as Dorinda Maxwell Mae Busch as Kitty Perkins Robert Frazer as David Lila Lee as Norma Davis Cosmo Kyrle Bellew as Judge Davis Robert Ober as Jimmie Ray Hallor as Chad George Periolat as Hatch
Censorship When Black Butterflies was released, many states and cities in the United States had censor boards that could require cuts or other eliminations before the film could be shown. The Kansas censor board ordered a cut of an intertitle with the caption, "May we help ourselves to life's pleasures."
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Bibliography Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
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