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Sacred and Profane Love is a american film of genre Drama directed by William Desmond Taylor released in USA on 22 may 1921 with Elsie Ferguson

Sacred and Profane Love (1921)

Sacred and Profane Love
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Released in USA 22 may 1921
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Romance

Sacred and Profane Love is a 1921 silent film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. This film was directed by William Desmond Taylor and starred Elsie Ferguson with Conrad Nagel. It is based on a book The Book of Carlotta by Arnold Bennett and was turned into a 1920 Broadway play which also starred Elsie Ferguson. Writer/director Julia Crawford Ivers adapted the book and play to the screen while her son James Van Trees served as one of the film's cinematographers. All known copies of this film are lost.

Synopsis

As described in a film publication summary, Carlotta Peel (Ferguson), brought up by a maiden aunt with maiden ideas, secretly attends a concert by Emilie Diaz (Nagel). After the concert she meets the pianist and later succumbs to the strains of "Samson and Delilah" played by Emilie. Carlotta spends the night with Emilie and returns home the next morning to find her aunt dead. She does not see Emilie again, and after several years she is a well known novelist who is loved by her publisher, Frank Ispenlove (Holding). The publisher's wife Mary (Greenwood) commits suicide because of her husband's affair with Carlotta. Frank then kills himself. After some time and at a different locality, Carlotta finds Emilie, a victim of absinthe. She nurses him back to health and his musical gift is restored. She is now happy with her first love.

Actors

Elsie Ferguson

(Carlotta Peel)Conrad Nagel

(Emilie Diaz, a pianist)Thomas Holding

(Frank Ispenlove)Helen Dunbar

(Constance Peel)Winifred Greenwood

(Mary Ispenlove)
And :
Forrest Stanley
Jane Keckley
Clarissa Selwynne
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