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Lilies of the Field (1930)

 
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 07, 2016 7:01 pm    Post subject: Lilies of the Field (1930) Reply with quote



Lilies of the Field is a 1930 American Pre-Code drama film directed by Alexander Korda, and starring Corinne Griffith (one of the favorite actresses of film pioneer David Wark Griffith, but in no way related), Ralph Forbes, and John Loder. It was a remake of the silent 1924 film Lilies of the Field, in which Griffith had played the same role.[1] Both films were based on a 1921 play of the same name by William J. Hurlbut. Lilies of the Field was Griffith's first all-dialogue film. The film is not related in any way to the 1963 film of the same name, which starred Sidney Poitier.

Strangely the movie had a sci-fi subplot titled "Mechanical Ballet". A publicity poster showing part of the ballet's set:



The set of the ballet:





The robots and Corrine in costume:



Wikipedia's info (such as it is) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilies_of_the_Field_%281930_film%29#Synopsis
and IMDb's http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021073/

No copies of this film are known to exist and it is believed that the film is now lost. Fragments of the "Mechanical Ballet" sequence are preserved in the 1932 Joe E. Brown comedy film entitled The Tenderfoot.

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PostPosted: Mon May 24, 2021 8:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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I found a clip from this lost film.


_____ Fragments from "Lilies of the Field" (1930)


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