Under the Crescent

{{Infobox film

| name = Under the Crescent

| image = Under the Crescent 1915 newspaper.jpg

| caption = Contemporary newspaper advertisement

| director = Burton L. King

| producer =

| writer = Nell Shipman

| starring = Ola Humphrey

| cinematography =

| editing =

| distributor = Universal Film Manufacturing Co.

| released = {{film date|1915|6|1}}

| runtime = 6 episodes

| country = United States

| language = Silent with English intertitles

}}

Under the Crescent is a 1915 American drama film serial directed by Burton L. King, starring Ola Humphrey, and released by Universal. The film is considered to be lost.{{sfn|Armatage|2003|p=57}}

Plot

A series of six episodes involving the adventures of an American actress in modern Egypt (circa 1910s). The story is biographical; it was based on the real life of its lead actress, Ola Humphrey, who in 1911 married Egyptian Prince Ibrahim Hassan, cousin of the Khedive.{{cite news |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50B14FC3B5517738DDDAF0994DC405B818DF1D3 |title=Actress Weds a Prince |access-date=January 7, 2013 |work=NY Times|date=April 16, 1911 }}

Cast

Ola Humphrey as The American Actress
William C. Dowlan as Stanley Clyde
Edward Sloman as Prince Ibrahim Tousson
Helen Wright as Princess Ousson
Carmen Phillips as Princess Uarda
William Quinn as Said Pasha
Henry Canfield as Sir Godfrey (credited as H.E. Canfield)
Orral Humphrey as Meheimit Ali
Edna Maison as Princess Zohna

Chapter titles

The Purple Iris
The Cage of the Golden Bars
In The Shadows of the Pyramids
For The Honor of a Woman
In The Name of the King
The Crown of Death

References

Works cited

{{cite book|last=Armatage |first=Kay |author-link=Kay Armatage |title=The Girl from God's Country: Nell Shipman and the Silent Cinema |publisher=University of Toronto Press |date=2003 |url=https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.3138/9781442681378/html |isbn=9781442681378}}