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Sapho is a lost [1] 1913 silent film feature drama directed by Lucius Henderson and is based on the novel by Alphonse Daudet and its stage adaptation by Daudet and Adolphe Belot.
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Listing of original Sapho cast, circa 1900. The English actress Olga Nethersole asked prominent American playwright Clyde Fitch to adapt Sapho, telling the story from the point of view of the lead female character rather than the male character as was done with the original novel and play. Nethersole produced, directed and starred.
The Eternal Sapho (also known as A Modern Sapho and The Eternal Sappho) [1] is a 1916 American silent drama film directed by Bertram Bracken and starring Theda Bara. The film was loosely based on the 1884 French novel Sappho by Alphonse Daudet. [2] [3] The film is now considered lost. [1]
Sappho (also known as Mad Love) is a 1921 German silent film directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki and starring Pola Negri as the title character. Alfred Abel , best known for his role as John Fredersen in Metropolis (1927), appears in the role of Andreas De La Croix, the insane brother.
The plot is based on a tradition that Sappho, a poet of ancient Greece, threw herself from the high Lesbian cliffs into the sea when she found that her love for the youth Phaon was unrequited, and that he preferred her slave, named Melitta in the play, to her. In Grillparzer's play, Melitta is not in love with Phaon; her only desire is to ...
Sappho Darling is a 1968 film written by Albert Zugsmith. [1] Cast. Carol Young as Sappho; Yvonne d'Angers as Brigitte; Alyn Darnay as Sven; Sally Sanford as Luana;
Kalpis painting of Sappho by the Sappho Painter (c. 510 BC), currently held in the National Museum, Warsaw. Sappho (/ ˈ s æ f oʊ /; Greek: Σαπφώ Sapphṓ [sap.pʰɔ̌ː]; Aeolic Greek Ψάπφω Psápphō; c. 630 – c. 570 BC) was an Archaic Greek poet from Eresos or Mytilene on the island of Lesbos.