Sapho (1913 film)

Sapho
Directed by	Lucius Henderson
Produced by	Majestic Motion Picture Company
Written by	Daniel Carson Goodman
Based on	novel, Sapho, by Alphonse Daudet and Adolphe Belot(*see )
Starring	Florence Roberts Shelley Hull
Distributed by	State Rights(*World's Special Films)
Release date	October 1913
Running time	6 reels
Country	USA
Language	Silent..English titles

Sapho is a lost 1913 silent film feature drama directed by Lucius Henderson and is based on the novel by Alphonse Daudet and Adolphe Belot. It stars stage actress Florence Roberts and Shelley Hull. It was produced by the Majestic Motion Picture Company and released by World's Special Films. As with Queen Elizabeth(1912) and Resurrection(1912), the film was one of the first features to star a major actress known by name. It competed with a four-reel French film that same year, 1913.

Sapho as a play, written by Clyde Fitch, was produced by Olga Nethersole on Broadway in 1900 to acclaim but also tinged with scandal as the play ran afoul of the New York Police Department who shut it down for a time and arrested it's stars Olga Nethersole and Hamilton Revelle.

The play was next filmed in 1918 as Sapho starring Pauline Frederick.

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