Theatrical poster to The Eternal Sapho likenesses of Theda Bara and Warner Oland
Directed by
Bertram Bracken
Written by
Mary Murillo (scenario)
Based on
Sapho by Alphonse Daudet
Produced by
William Fox
Starring
Theda Bara James Cooley
Cinematography
Rial Schellinger
Distributed by
Fox Film Corporation
Release date
May 7, 1916 (1916-05-07)
Running time
50 minutes
Country
United States
Language
Silent (English intertitles)
The Eternal Sapho (also known as A Modern Sapho and The Eternal Sappho)[1] is a 1916 American silent drama film directed by Bertram Bracken and starring Theda Bara. The film was loosely based on the 1881 French novel Sapho, by Alphonse Daudet.[2][3] The film is now considered lost.[1]
The Eternal Sapho was produced by Fox Film Corporation and shot at the Fox Studio in Fort Lee, New Jersey.[4] Some filming took place at the Marble House, a mansion located on a hill above 215th Street in New York.[5]
^ ab"Progressive Silent Film List: The Eternal Sapho". silentera.com. Retrieved June 28, 2008.
^Connelly, Robert B. (1998). The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910–36. Vol. 40 (2 ed.). December Press. p. 74. ISBN 0-913204-36-6.
^Golden, Eve (1996). ""5. A Good Little Devil"". Vamp: The Rise and Fall of Theda Bara. Vestal Press. pp. 86–87. ISBN 1879511320.
^Fort Lee: Birthplace of the Motion Picture Industry. Arcadia Publishing. 2006. p. 64. ISBN 0-7385-4501-5.
^"'On Location' -- East Coast and Metropolitan." Photoplay Magazine, Dec. 1916, Vol. XI, No. 1, pp 36-42. Accessed: August 1, 2018.
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