''The Black Butterfly'' is a lost 1916 American silent

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...

released by

Metro Pictures Metro Pictures Corporation was a Film, motion picture production company founded in early 1915 in Jacksonville, Florida. It was a forerunner of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The company produced its films in New York, Los Angeles, and sometimes at le ...

, starring

Olga Petrova Olga Petrova (born Muriel Harding; 10 May 1884 – 30 November 1977) was a British-American actress, screenwriter and playwright. Origins In adulthood, Olga Petrova insisted that she had been born in Warsaw, Poland, then part of the Russian E ...

. The last known copy was destroyed in the

1965 MGM vault fire On August 10, 1965, a fire erupted in Vault 7, a storage facility at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio (MGM) backlot (now Sony Pictures Studios) in Culver City, California. It was caused by an electrical short that ignited flammable stored nitrate ...

. The extant footage was posted online in 2019.

Cast

as Sonia Smirnov / Marie, The Convent Girl *

Mahlon Hamilton Mahlon Preston Hamilton, Jr. (June 15, 1880 – June 20, 1960), was an American stage and screen actor. He was the son of a bartender born in Baltimore, Maryland, the eldest of four children, with the rest of the siblings being girls. Census ...

as Alan Hall * Anthony Merlo as Girard * Count Lewenhaupt as Lachaise * Edward Brennan as Lord Braislin *

Violet Reed Violet Reed (born Violet Williams) was an American actress active in Hollywood during the silent era. Biography Reed was born in Chicago, Illinois, to John Williams and Hanna Mattson. Her father appears to have died when she was young. She wa ...

as Lady Constance Braislin * John Hopkins as Don Luis Maredo * Morgan Jones as Peter, Father of Sonia *

Norman Kerry Norman Kerry (born Norman Hussey Kaiser,"United States World War II Draft Registration Cards,registration for Norman Hussey Kaiser, Los Angeles, California, April 27, 1942 This document lists his full name as Norman Hussey Kaiser, noting the na ...

as Vladimir (credited as Norman Kaiser) * Roy Pilcher as Gaston Duval * Evelyn Dumo as Ciel, Sonia's Maid

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* 1916 films American silent feature films Lost American drama films Films based on short fiction Films directed by Burton L. King 1916 drama films Silent American drama films American black-and-white films Films with screenplays by Lillian Case Russell Metro Pictures films 1916 lost films 1910s American films 1910s English-language films English-language drama films {{1910s-drama-film-stub