She's a Sheik
{{Short description|1927 film}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=November 2022}}
{{Infobox film
|name = She's a Sheik
|image = She's a Sheik lobby card.jpg
|caption = Lobby card
|director = Clarence Badger
|producer = Adolph Zukor
Jesse Lasky
|writer = John McDermott (story)
Lloyd Corrigan (scenario)
Grover Jones (scenario)
George Marion, Jr. (intertitles)
|starring = Bebe Daniels
|cinematography = J. Roy Hunt
|distributor = Paramount Pictures
|released = {{Film date|1927|11|12}}
|runtime = 6 reels, (between 5,931 ft. & 6,015 ft.)
|country = United States
|language = Silent (English intertitles)
}}
She's a Sheik is a 1927 American silent comedy adventure film produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures and starring Bebe Daniels.{{cite web | url = https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/12045 | title = She's a Sheik | website = AFI Catalog of Feature Films | access-date = 17 August 2023 | archive-url = https://archive.today/20230817060328/https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/12045 | archive-date = 17 August 2023}} A 16mm print of the film was rediscovered in 2017 by Kevin Brownlow.{{cite web | url = http://ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com/2017/12/double-bebe-shes-sheik-1927miss.html | title = Double Bebe… She’s a Sheik (1927)/Miss Bluebeard (1925), with Meg Morley and Lillian Henley, Kennington Bioscope | website = ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com | access-date = 17 August 2023 | archive-url = https://archive.today/20230817060235/http://ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com/2017/12/double-bebe-shes-sheik-1927miss.html | archive-date = 17 August 2023}}
Synopsis
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A send-up comedy that uses many of the elements of the Rudolph Valentino 'sheik' films, with the exception that a woman, played by Bebe Daniels, is the protagonist.
Cast
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- Bebe Daniels Lyon as Zaida
- Richard Arlen as Captain Colton
- William Powell as Kada
- Josephine Dunn as Wanda Fowler
- James Bradbury Jr. as Jerry
- Billy Franey as Joe
- Paul McAllister as Sheik Yusiff ben Hamad
- Al Fremont as The Major
- Michael Raffetto as Achmet
References
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External links
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- {{IMDb title|id=0018386|title=She's a Sheik}}
- {{cite web | url = https://silenthollywood.com/shesasheik.html | title = She's a Sheik, 1927 | website = silenthollywood.com | access-date = 17 August 2023 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20221118195440/https://silenthollywood.com/shesasheik.html | archive-date = 18 November 2022}}
- {{cite web | url = https://www.silentfilmstillarchive.com/shes_a_sheik.htm | title = She's A Sheik (1927) | website = silentfilmstillarchive.com | access-date = 17 August 2023 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230817062251/https://www.silentfilmstillarchive.com/shes_a_sheik.htm | archive-date = 17 August 2023}}
{{Clarence G. Badger}}
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Category:1920s adventure comedy films
Category:1920s English-language films
Category:1920s rediscovered films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:American silent feature films
Category:English-language adventure comedy films
Category:Famous Players-Lasky films
Category:Films directed by Clarence G. Badger
Category:Paramount Pictures films
Category:Rediscovered American films
Category:Silent American adventure comedy films
Category:Surviving American silent films
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