A Modern Salome Explained

A Modern Salome is a lost^[1] 1920 American silent drama film directed by Leonce Perret and starring Hope Hampton. It was produced and distributed by Metro Pictures.^{[2] [3]} The film is based on the 1891 Oscar Wilde play Salome.

Plot

A display advert of the time states: "Her fancy swept her back through the ages, and she was dancing before king Herod for the head of John the Baptist. Yet she was a modern woman, a hot-house product of Twentieth Century Society."^[4]

Cast

• Hope Hampton as Virginia Hastings
• Sidney Mason as Robert Monti
• Percy Standing as James Vandam
• Arthur Donaldson as Walter Greene
• Wyndham Standing as Harry Torrence
• Agnes Ayres as Helen Torrence

Notes and References

1. http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.7629/default.html The Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: A Modern Salome
2. http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/M/ModernSalome1920.html A Modern Salome at silentera.com
3. Web site: AFICatalog . 2023-01-07 . catalog.afi.com.
4. Display advert, San Bernardino Daily Sun, San Bernardino, California, Tuesday May 4, 1920, Volume XLVII, Number 65, page 2.