Scandal exiled her to Europe—this lost film is all that remains of Mary Nolan's forbidden era.
German made drama was one of several the notorious Mary Nolan, under her given name Imogene Robertson, made during her European exile brought on by innumerable scandals in America.
Production
Surviving stills suggest lush, doomed romanticism.
Director
Einar Bruun
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Mary Nolan was blacklisted after an affair with married comedian Frank Tinney ended in a very public beating—she fled to Germany and reinvented herself as Imogene Robertson.
Like 75% of all silent films, Hidden Fires is gone forever—a casualty of nitrate decomposition, studio indifference, and time itself eating its own history.
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