Aloma of the South Seas (1926 film)

Aloma of the South Seas

1926 lobby poster
Directed by Maurice Tourneur
Produced by E. Lloyd Sheldon
Maurice Tourneur
Adolph Zukor
Jesse L. Lasky
Written by James Ashmore Creelman
Starring Gilda Gray
Percy Marmont
Warner Baxter
Music by Robert Hood Bowers[1]
Cinematography Harry Fischbeck
Edited by E. Lloyd Sheldon
Production
company
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release dates
  • May 16, 1926 (1926-05-16)
Running time
90 minutes
Country United States
Language Silent film
English intertitles
Box office US$ 3 million

Aloma of the South Seas is a 1926 silent film starring Gilda Gray as an erotic dancer, filmed in Puerto Rico and Bermuda, and based on a 1925 play of the same title by John B. Hymer and LeRoy Clemens.[2][3] Grossing $3 million in the U.S. alone, this was the most successful film of 1926 and the fourth most successful film of the 1920s.[4]

Preservation status

The film is now considered to be a lost film.[5][6]

Remake

The film was remade as Aloma of the South Seas (1941), starring Dorothy Lamour and Jon Hall.

Cast

See also

References

  1. "Robert Hood Bowers". Billboard. 10 January 1942. p. 31. Retrieved 15 December 2009.
  2. Aloma of the South Seas at silentera.com database
  3. "Theatre: New Plays: May 4, 1925". Time. 4 May 1925. Retrieved 15 December 2009.
  4. Christensen, Terry; Haas, Peter J. (2005). Projecting politics: political messages in American film. M. E. Sharpe. p. 326. ISBN 978-0-7656-1443-8. Retrieved 15 December 2009.
  5. Bryant, Roger (2006). William Powell: the life and films. McFarland. p. 30. ISBN 978-0-7864-2602-7. Retrieved 15 December 2009.
  6. Aloma of the South Seas at Arne Andersen's Lost Film Files: Paramount Pictures 1926

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