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and its stage adaptation by Daudet and Adolphe Belot. It stars stage actress

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and Shelley Hull. It was produced by the Majestic Motion Picture Company and released by World's Special Films. As with ''

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'' (1912) and ''

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'' (1912), the film was one of the first features to star a major actress known by name. It competed with a four-reel French film that same year, 1913. ''Sapho'' as a play, written by

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, was produced by

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on Broadway in 1900 to acclaim but also tinged with scandal as the play ran afoul of the New York Police Department, who shut it down for a time and arrested its stars

and

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. The play was next filmed in 1917 as '' Sapho'' starring

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Cast

- Fanny Le Grand/Sapho * Shelley Hull - Jean * Arthur Cadwell Jr. - Joseph * Lamar Johnstone - *uncredited

References

External links

* 1913 films American silent feature films Lost American drama films Films based on Sappho (novel) American black-and-white films Silent American drama films 1913 drama films 1913 lost films 1910s American films 1910s English-language films English-language drama films Lost silent American films {{1910s-drama-film-stub