The Devil Dancer

{{Infobox film

| name = The Devil Dancer

| image = Devil Dancer lobby card.jpg

| caption = Lobby card

| director = Fred Niblo

| producer = Samuel Goldwyn

| writer = Alice D. G. Miller (screenplay)
Edwin Justus Mayer (intertitles)

| story = Harry Hervey

| starring = Gilda Gray
Clive Brook
Anna May Wong

| cinematography = George Barnes
Thomas Brannigan

| studio = Samuel Goldwyn Productions

| distributor = United Artists

| released = {{film date|1927|11|19}}

| runtime = 73 minutes

| country = United States

| language = Silent (English intertitles)

}}

The Devil Dancer is a 1927 American silent romantic drama film directed by Fred Niblo and produced by Samuel Goldwyn. The film stars Gilda Gray.

For his work on this film, The Magic Flame and Sadie Thompson, cinematographer George Barnes was nominated for the first Academy Award for Best Cinematography at the 1st Academy Awards ceremony in 1929.{{cite web |url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1929 |title=The 1st Academy Awards (1929) Nominees and Winners |publisher=Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences |accessdate=November 9, 2013}}

Cast

Gilda Gray as Takla (The Devil Dancer)
Clive Brook as Stephen Athelstan
Anna May Wong as Sada
Serge Temoff as Beppo
Michael Vavitch as Hassim
Sōjin Kamiyama as Sadik Lama
Anne Schaefer as Tana
Albert Conti as Arnold Guthrie
Martha Mattox as Isabel
Kalla Pasha as Toy
James B. Leong as The Grand Lama
William H. Tooker as Lathrop
Claire Du Brey as Audrey
Nora Cecil as Julia
Barbara Tennant as The White Woman
Herbert Evans (uncredited minor part)
Jack Harvey (uncredited minor part)
Ura Mita (uncredited minor part)
Clarissa Selwynne (uncredited minor part)

Preservation

The Devil Dancer is now considered a lost film.[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/D/DevilDancer1927.html Progressive Silent Film List: The Devil Dancer] at silentera.com

References

External links

{{IMDb title|0017806}}
[http://www.mikeclinesthenplaying.com/2011/10/june-1928-movie-listings.html Lobby card]
[https://fineartamerica.com/featured/the-devil-dancer-1927-sad-hill-archive.html Still] at fineartamerica.com
[https://archive.org/details/pressbook-ua-the-devil-dancer/mode/2up United Artists Press Book] on the Internet Archive

Category:1927 films

Category:1927 lost films

Category:1927 romantic drama films

Category:1920s American films

Category:1920s English-language films

Category:American black-and-white films

Category:American silent feature films

Category:English-language romantic drama films

Category:Films directed by Fred Niblo

Category:Lost American romantic drama films

Category:Samuel Goldwyn Productions films

Category:Silent American romantic drama films

Category:United Artists films