Temptation (1915 film) explained

Temptation
Director:	Cecil B. DeMille
Producer:	Cecil B. DeMille Jesse L. Lasky
Story:	Hector Turnbull
Starring:	Geraldine Farrar Theodore Roberts
Cinematography:	Alvin Wyckoff
Editing:	Cecil B. DeMille
Studio:	Jesse Lasky Feature Plays
Distributor:	Paramount Pictures
Runtime:	60 minutes
Country:	United States
Language:	Silent English intertitles
Budget:	$22,472.25^[1]
Gross:	$102,437.47

Temptation is a 1915 American silent romantic drama film directed and produced by Cecil B. DeMille. The film starred Geraldine Farrar and Theodore Roberts and was written by and based on an original story by Hector Turnbull.^[2] Additional writing was done by DeMille and Jeanie MacPherson, who did not receive screen credit.^[3]

Cast

• Geraldine Farrar as Renee Dupree
• Theodore Roberts as Otto Mueller
• Pedro de Cordoba as Julian
• Elsie Jane Wilson as Madame Maroff
• Raymond Hatton as Baron Cheurial
• Sessue Hayakawa as Opera Admirer
• Jessie Arnold (uncredited)
• Tex Driscoll (uncredited)
• Ernest Joy (uncredited)
• Anita King (uncredited)
• Lucien Littlefield (uncredited)

Preservation

With no prints of Temptation located in any film archives, it is considered a lost film.^{[4] [5]}

See also

• List of lost films

External links

• • Temptation at SilentEra

Notes and References

1. De Mille's Costs-Gross. Variety. 21 March 1928. 20 March 2023. 5.
2. Web site: Temptation . afi.com . March 30, 2024.
3. Book: Birchard, Robert S. . Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood. 2004. University Press of Kentucky. 0-813-12324-0. 64.
4. Web site: American Silent Feature Film Database: Temptation . March 30, 2024 . Library of Congress.
5. Web site: Progressive Silent Film List: Temptation . July 16, 2011. Silent Era.