Manon Lescaut (1914 film)
1914 film by Herbert Hall Winslow
Manon Lescaut is a 1914 American silent drama film directed by Herbert Hall Winslow and starring Lina Cavalieri, Lucien Muratore and Dorothy Arthur. It is an adaptation of the Abbé Prévost's novel Manon Lescaut (1731). It is now considered a lost film.
Cast
Lina Cavalieri as Manon Lescaut
Lucien Muratore as Chevalier des Grieux
Dorothy Arthur as Fifine
William L. Abingdon as Baron de Bretigny
Charles Hammond as Abbe Tiberge
Frank H. Westerton as Lescaut
Henry Weaver as Rochfort
Frank Hardy as Synnelet
Herbert Hall Winslow as Edouarde
Walter Cecil as Governor of St. Lazare
References
Bibliography
Paul Fryer, Olga Usova. Lina Cavalieri: The Life of Opera's Greatest Beauty, 1874-1944. McFarland, 2003.
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