She faked her death. He found her dealing cards. Silent drama hits different.
A woman allows her husband, who she knows no longer loves her, to believe that she has been killed in a train wreck. Her husband later finds her as a hostess in a gambling den.
Acting
Pola Negri's face does ALL the talking
Costume
Baroness to gambling den hostess glow-down
Director
Rowland V. Lee
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Pola Negri's second-to-last silent film before talkies ended her Paramount contract. She allegedly threw herself on Rudolph Valentino's coffin at his funeral.
Rowland V. Lee directed this during Hollywood's brief obsession with 'fallen woman' redemption arcs — the Hays Code was coming and these morally flexible heroines were about to vanish.
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