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A Modern Salome
(1920) United States of America
B&W : Six reels / 5700 feet
Directed by Léonce Perret

Cast: Hope Hampton [Virginia Hastings], Sidney L. Mason [Robert Monti], Percy Standing [James Vandam], Arthur Donaldson [Walter Greene], Wyndham Standing [Harry Torrence], Agnes Ayres [Helen Torrence]

Hope Hampton Productions, Incorporated, production; distributed by Metro Pictures Corporation. / Scenario by Léonce Perret, from a screen story by Léonce Perret suggested by the poem “Salome” by Oscar Wilde. Cinematography by Alfred Ortlieb and Harry D. Harde. / © 17 February 1920 by Hope Hampton Productions, Incorporated [LP14786]. Released March 1920. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Hampton’s film debut.

Drama.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.3022.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 2 July 2012.

References: AFI-F1 n. F1.3022; Bardèche-History p. 111.