The Girl of the Golden West is a
1915The year 1915 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*June 18 : The Motion Picture Directors Association was formed by twenty-six film directors in Los Angeles, California.*The Allan Dwan directed film David Harum is released...
Western filmThe Western is a fiction genre seen in film, television, radio, literature, painting and other visual arts. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the later half of the 19th century in what became the Western United States , but also in Western Canada, Mexico , Alaska The Western...
directed by
Cecil B. DeMilleCecil Blount DeMille was a legendary American film director and Academy Award-winning film producer. He was renowned for the flamboyance and showmanship of his movies.-Early life:...
. It's based on the opera of the
same nameLa fanciulla del West is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Guelfo Civinini and Carlo Zangarini, based on the play The Girl of the Golden West by David Belasco...
. Prints of the film survive in the
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film archive.
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The Girl of the Golden West is a
1915The year 1915 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*June 18 : The Motion Picture Directors Association was formed by twenty-six film directors in Los Angeles, California.*The Allan Dwan directed film David Harum is released...
Western filmThe Western is a fiction genre seen in film, television, radio, literature, painting and other visual arts. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the later half of the 19th century in what became the Western United States , but also in Western Canada, Mexico , Alaska The Western...
directed by
Cecil B. DeMilleCecil Blount DeMille was a legendary American film director and Academy Award-winning film producer. He was renowned for the flamboyance and showmanship of his movies.-Early life:...
. It's based on the opera of the
same nameLa fanciulla del West is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Guelfo Civinini and Carlo Zangarini, based on the play The Girl of the Golden West by David Belasco...
. Prints of the film survive in the
Library of CongressThe Library of Congress is the research library of the United States Congress and is the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States. Located in three buildings in Washington, D.C., it is the largest library in the world by shelf space and holds the largest number of books. The head...
film archive.
Cast
- Mabel Van Buren
Mabel Van Buren was an American stage and screen actress from Chicago, Illinois. She had dark hair, brown eyes, and was five feet three inches tall. She enjoyed riding horses and swimming....
— The Girl
- Theodore Roberts
Theodore Roberts the actor is not to be confused with author Theodore Goodridge Roberts, 1877-1953, who wrote the "The Harbor Master". Please see discussion page....
— Jack Rance
- House Peters — Ramerrez
- Anita King
Anita King was an American racecar driver, actress, and thoroughbred racehorse owner.-Early life:Born Anna Keppen to German immigrants in Michigan City, Indiana, her father committed suicide in 1896 when she was twelve years old and two years later her mother died of pulmonary tuberculosis...
— Wowkle
- Sydney Deane
Sydney Leslie Deane was a first-class cricketer and entertainer, and the first Australian to appear in a Hollywood movie....
— Sidney Duck
- William Elmer
William Elmer , was an American actor of the silent era. He appeared in 88 films between 1913 and 1942.He was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa and died in Hollywood, California.-Selected filmography:...
— Ashby (as Billy Elmer)
- Jeanie MacPherson
Jeanie MacPherson was a silent film actress from 1908 to 1917 and a film screenwriter through the 1940s....
— Nina (as Jeane McPherson)
- Raymond Hatton
Raymond William Hatton was an American movie actor who appeared in almost five hundred movies, including a stint of being paired in 1920s comedies with Wallace Beery....
— Castro
- Richard L'Estrange — Senor Slim (as Dick Le Strange)
- Tex Driscoll — Nick, The Bartender
- Artie Ortego
Artie Ortego was an American actor. He appeared in over 245 motion pictures between 1912 and 1955. Ortego portrayed cowboys, henchmen and American Indians in a large number of westerns and performed horse riding stunts...
— Antonio (as Arthur Ortego)
- John Oretgo — Stagecoach Driver
- James Griswold — Guard
- Edwin Harley — Old Minstrel