The Black Butterfly
Cast & Crew
Burton L. King
Mme. Petrova
Mahlon Hamilton
Anthony Merlo
Count Lewenhaupt
Edward Brennan
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Sonia Smirnov, "The Black Butterfly" of the Paris opera, begins an affair with Alan Hall, who had previously loved a peasant girl. Years before, a poor girl herself, Sonia had married an officer, become pregnant and then discovered that the marriage was not legal. After leaving her daughter to be raised by some peasants, Sonia went to Paris. When Sonia discovers that Alan's peasant girl is her own daughter, she insists that he return to her. Grieving over Alan, Sonia becomes a nurse at the front. One of her patients is the officer, Gaston Duval, who, she thinks, took advantage of her years before. Gaston, however, proves the marriage was real and vows that he had searched for her for years, and the couple is reconciled.
Director
Burton L. King
Cast
Mme. Petrova
Mahlon Hamilton
Anthony Merlo
Count Lewenhaupt
Edward Brennan
Violet B. Reed
John Hopkins
Morgan Jones
Norman Kaiser
Roy Pilcher
Evelyn Dumo
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
Sources conflict in giving scenario credit: Wid's lists L. Case Russell as author, Moving Picture World credits Wallace C. Clifton with the scenario, the copyright records list story and scenario by Mme. Petrova and L. Case Russell, and New York Dramatic Mirror lists story by Mme. Petrova and Russell, and scenario by Wallace Clifton. According to a news item, a prominent New York physician conducted a blood transfusion operation in this film, in a scene taking place in a hospital tent near the battlefield, on the condition that his name be withheld.
