The Two Orphans is a 1915 silent

Silent film

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, pantomime and title cards...

 drama film

Drama film

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 directed by Herbert Brenon and starring Theda Bara

Theda Bara

Theda Bara , born Theodosia Burr Goodman, was an American silent film actress – one of the most popular of her era, and one of cinema's earliest sex symbols. Her femme fatale roles earned her the nickname "The Vamp" . The term "vamp" soon became a popular slang term for a sexually predatory woman...

. The film is now considered to be a lost film

Lost film

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This film was based on an English play by John Oxenford

John Oxenford

John Oxenford , English dramatist, was born at Camberwell, London, England.-Life:He began his literary career by writing on finance...

 - the same play that was being performed at the time of the Brooklyn Theater Fire

Brooklyn Theater Fire

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. The film was later remade

Remake

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 by D. W. Griffith

D. W. Griffith

David Llewelyn Wark Griffith was a premier pioneering American film director. He is best known as the director of the controversial and groundbreaking 1915 film The Birth of a Nation and the subsequent film Intolerance .Griffith's film The Birth of a Nation made pioneering use of advanced camera...

 as Orphans of the Storm

Orphans Of The Storm

Orphans of the Storm is a drama film by D. W. Griffith set in late 18th century France, before and during the French Revolution.This was the last Griffith film to feature Lillian and Dorothy Gish, and is often considered Griffith's last major commercial success, after boxoffice hits such as Birth...

(1921), starring Dorothy Gish

Dorothy Gish

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 and Lillian Gish

Lillian Gish

Lillian Diana Gish was an American stage, screen and television actress whose film acting career spanned 75 years, from 1912 to 1987....

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The film was made by Fox Film Corporation

20th Century Fox

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 when it and many other early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based in Fort Lee, New Jersey

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 at the beginning of the 20th century.

Cast

• Theda Bara
  Theda Bara
  Theda Bara , born Theodosia Burr Goodman, was an American silent film actress – one of the most popular of her era, and one of cinema's earliest sex symbols. Her femme fatale roles earned her the nickname "The Vamp" . The term "vamp" soon became a popular slang term for a sexually predatory woman...
  
   - Henriette
• Jean Sothern - Louise
• William E. Shay - Chevalier de Vaudrey
• Herbert Brenon - Pierre
• Gertrude Berkeley - Mother Frochard
• Frank Goldsmith - Marquis de Presles
• E. L. Fernandez - Jacques
• Sheridan Block - Count de Liniere
• Saba Raleigh
  Saba Raleigh
  Saba Raleigh was an English actress.-References:...
  
   - Countess De Liniere (as Mrs. Cecil Raleigh)
• John Daly Murphy - Picard