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Bella Donna
(1915) American
B&W : Five reels
Directed by Edwin S. Porter and Hugh Ford

Cast: Pauline Frederick [Bella Donna], Thomas Holding [Nigel Armine], Julian L’Estrange [Baroudi], Eugene Ormonde [Doctor Isaacson], George Majeroni [Ibraham], Edmund Shalet [Hamza], Helen Sinnott [the maid]

Famous Players Film Company production in association with the Charles Frohman Company; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation. / From the play adaptation Bella Donna by James Bernard Fagan of the novel Bella Donna by Robert Smythe Hichens. / © 12 November 1915 by Famous Players Film Company [LU6988]. Released 15 November 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / Exteriors shot on-location in Florida. The novel was subsequently filmed as Bella Donna (1923).

Drama.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.0271.

Survival Status: (unknown)

Listing updated: 4 May 2010.

References: AFI-F1 n. F1.0271; Tarbox-Lost p. 247 : Website-AFI.