Revelation
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
George D. Baker
Nazimova
Charles Bryant
Frank Currier
Syn De Conde
Bigelow Cooper
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Joline, a passionate and vivacious cabaret dancer in Paris' Latin Quarter, becomes infatuated with penniless American artist Paul Granville and soon becomes his mistress. With Joline as his model, Paul finally wins the recognition he has sought, but when Count Adrian de Roche commissions him to paint "the Madonna of the Rose Bush," he decides to seek a model more befitting the role. Joline's pleas finally convince Paul to take her to the portrait's site, an old monastery behind which is a rosebush that bloomed only once, when the Madonna appeared among its branches. At Joline's touch, the bush again bursts into bloom, which moves her so greatly that she leaves her lover and begins a new life. As a Red Cross nurse in World War I, Joline discovers Paul wounded on a battlefield, and following his recovery they marry.
Director
George D. Baker
Cast
Nazimova
Charles Bryant
Frank Currier
Syn De Conde
Bigelow Cooper
John Martin
Eugene Borden
Philip Sanford
True James
Dave Turner
Fred Radcliffe
A. C. Hadley
Hazel Washburn
Crew
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
The picture's working title was God's Message. Nazimova's costumes "were created by Madame Nazimova herself." Some of the exterior scenes were filmed in New Orleans. The story was published as a novelette in New York in 1918. Metro-Goldwyn remade Mabel Wagnalls' story in 1924 as Revelation, with Viola Dana starring and George D. Baker directing. (See AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1921-30; F2.4558.)
