Movie: Black Orchids

Top 9 Billed Cast

Cleo Madison
Cleo Madison

Marie de Severac / Zoraida

Dick La Reno
Dick La Reno

Emile de Severac

Francis McDonald
Francis McDonald

George Renoir / Ivan De Maupin

Wedgwood Nowell
Wedgwood Nowell

Marquis De Chantal

Howard Crampton
Howard Crampton

Sebastian de Maupin

William Dyer
William Dyer

Proprietor of L'Hibour Blanc

John George
John George

Ali Bara

Jean Hersholt
Jean Hersholt

Joe Martin
Joe Martin

Haitim-Tai

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    Frivolous young Marie de Severac is frightened into following a more virtuous path, when her father relates a story in which an equally frivolous woman is entombed alive. The movie was Rex Ingram’s directorial debut, and he later remade the film as Trifling Women in 1922. Black Orchids is considered to be a lost film.

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    1917-01-01

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    The Love Affairs of a Heartless Woman

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