She's a Sheik explained

She's a Sheik
Director:	Clarence Badger
Producer:	Adolph Zukor Jesse Lasky
Starring:	Bebe Daniels
Cinematography:	J. Roy Hunt
Distributor:	Paramount Pictures
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.^[1] A 16mm print of the film was rediscovered in 2017 by Kevin Brownlow.^[2]

Synopsis

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

• 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

External links

• • • Web site: She's a Sheik, 1927 . silenthollywood.com . 17 August 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221118195440/https://silenthollywood.com/shesasheik.html . 18 November 2022.
• Web site: She's A Sheik (1927) . silentfilmstillarchive.com . 17 August 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230817062251/https://www.silentfilmstillarchive.com/shes_a_sheik.htm . 17 August 2023.

Notes and References

1. Web site: She's a Sheik . AFI Catalog of Feature Films . 17 August 2023 . https://archive.today/20230817060328/https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/12045 . 17 August 2023.
2. Web site: Double Bebe… She’s a Sheik (1927)/Miss Bluebeard (1925), with Meg Morley and Lillian Henley, Kennington Bioscope . ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com . 17 August 2023 . https://archive.today/20230817060235/http://ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com/2017/12/double-bebe-shes-sheik-1927miss.html . 17 August 2023.