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Trilby is a 1915 American silent drama film directed by Maurice Tourneur and starring Wilton Lackaye, Clara Kimball Young, and Paul McAllister. It is an adaptation of the 1894 novel Trilby by George du Maurier. The film's sets were designed by art director Ben Carré.
Trilby: Directed by Maurice Tourneur. With Wilton Lackaye, Clara Kimball Young, Paul McAllister, Chester Barnett. A hypnotic Svengali controls the singing voice of a young starlet, but he cannot control her heart.
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- Drama
- Maurice Tourneur
- 1915-09-20
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0006182/Director: Maurice TourneurStars: Wilton Lackaye, Clara Kimball Young, Paul McAllister Production Company: Equitable Moti...
- 63 min
- 3.3K
- Films by the Year
Trilby O'Farrell, who models for English artist Little Billie, plans to marry him, but on the night that their engagement is to be announced, the wandering musician Svengali, who met Trilby in Billie's Parisian Latin Quarter studio, hypnotizes her and takes her to England with him.
- Maurice Tourneur, Clarence L. Brown
- Clara Kimball Young
Trilby is a 1923 American silent drama film directed by James Young and starring Andrée Lafayette, Creighton Hale, and Arthur Edmund Carewe. It is an adaptation of the 1894 novel Trilby by George du Maurier about a young woman named Trilby who falls under the power of the domineering mesmerist Svengali .
Produced entirely at the World Film Company's studios in Fort Lee, NJ, and on location in Greenwich Village's MacDougal Alley, this faithful rendition of George du Maurier's tale of mesmerism stars Clara Kimball Young in the title role and stage actor Wilton Lackaye as the monstrous Svengali.
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Overview. The hypnotic Svengali controls the singing voice of a young starlet, but he cannot control her heart. This 1915 Maurice Tourneur film is a version of the famous du Maurier novel. It was later done in a more famous 1931 film named Svengali with John Barrymore.
