Aloma of the South Seas (1926 film)
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Directed by | Maurice Tourneur |
Written by | James Ashmore Creelman |
Based on | Aloma of the South Seas by John B. Hymer and LeRoy Clemens |
Produced by | E. Lloyd Sheldon Maurice Tourneur Adolph Zukor Jesse L. Lasky |
Starring | Gilda Gray Percy Marmont Warner Baxter |
Cinematography | Harry Fischbeck |
Edited by | E. Lloyd Sheldon |
Music by | Robert Hood Bowers[1] |
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Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
Box office | US$ 3 million[2] |
Aloma of the South Seas is a 1926 American silent comedy drama film starring Gilda Gray as an erotic dancer, filmed in Puerto Rico and Bermuda, and based on a 1925 play of the same title by John B. Hymer and LeRoy Clemens.[3][4] Grossing $3 million in the U.S. alone, this was the most successful film of 1926 and the fourth most successful film of the 1920s.[5]
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Gilda Gray, 1922 publicity photo
The film was spoofed by a 1926 Mutt and Jeff animated cartoon, Aroma of the South Seas.[6]
Plot[]
A young South Seas native boy who is sent to the U.S. for his education returns to his island after his father dies to try to stop a revolution.
Cast[]
- Gilda Gray as Aloma
- Percy Marmont as Bob Holden
- Warner Baxter as Nuitane
- William Powell as Van Templeton
- Harry T. Morey as Red Malloy
- Julanne Johnston as Sylvia
- Joseph W. Smiley as Andrew Taylor
- Frank Montgomery as Hongi
- Michelette Burani as Hina (credited as Madame Burani)
- Ernestine Gaines as Taula
- Aurelio Ciccia as Sailor
Preservation status[]
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Aloma of the South Seas lantern slide
The film is now considered to be a lost film.[7][8]
Remake[]
The film was remade as Aloma of the South Seas (1941), starring Dorothy Lamour and Jon Hall.
See also[]
References[]
- ^ "Robert Hood Bowers". Billboard. January 10, 1942. p. 31. Retrieved December 15, 2009.
- ^ Box Office Information for "Aloma of the South Seas"
- ^ Progressive Silent Film List: Aloma of the South Seas at silentera.com
- ^ "Theatre: New Plays: May 4, 1925". Time. May 4, 1925. Archived from the original on February 19, 2012. Retrieved December 15, 2009.
- ^ Christensen, Terry; Haas, Peter J. (2005). Projecting politics: political messages in American film. M. E. Sharpe. pp. 326. ISBN 978-0-7656-1443-8. Retrieved December 15, 2009.
aloma of the south seas.
- ^ Sampson, Henry T. (1998). That's Enough, Folks: Black Images in Animated Cartoons, 1900-1960. Scarecrow Press. pp. 84–85. ISBN 978-0810832503.
- ^ Bryant, Roger (2006). William Powell: the life and films. McFarland. p. 30. ISBN 978-0-7864-2602-7. Retrieved December 15, 2009.
- ^ Aloma of the South Seas at Arne Andersen's Lost Film Files: Paramount Pictures 1926 Archived August 22, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
External links[]
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- Aloma of the South Seas at IMDb
- Swedish poster featuring Gilda Gray
- Synopsis at AllMovie
- Lobby card at silenthollywood.com
Categories:
- 1926 films
- American films
- American black-and-white films
- American silent feature films
- Lost American films
- Lost comedy-drama films
- Famous Players-Lasky films
- Films directed by Maurice Tourneur
- Films shot in Puerto Rico
- Films set in Oceania
- American comedy-drama films
- 1926 comedy-drama films
- 1926 lost films
- 1920s silent drama film stubs