La Bohème (1916 film)

La Bohème
(**La vie de Bohème -France**)
La Bohème ; (La vie de Bohème -France)
	1916 advertisement
Directed by	Albert Capellani
Written by	Frances Marion (scenario)
Based on	Scènes de la vie de bohème; (1847–49) novel; by Henri Murger
Produced by	William A. Brady
Starring	Alice Brady; Paul Capellani
Cinematography	Lucien Andriot
Distributed by	World-Selznick
Release date	June 19, 1916;
Running time	5 reels
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

La Bohème (aka: La vie de Bohème) is a 1916 American silent historical film directed by Albert Capellani and distributed by World Pictures. The star of this version is Alice Brady, whose father William A. Brady was the founder of World Pictures. This film is one of many silent versions, actually the third or fourth. Later silent versions appeared in 1917 and 1926 starring Lillian Gish. Director Albert Capellani's brother, Paul Capellani, who appears in this film, had made his own short version in 1912.^[1]^[2]

Plot

Cast

Alice Brady as Mimi
Paul Capellani as Rudolphe
June Elvidge as Madame de Rouvre
Leslie Stowe as Durandin
Chester Barnett as Marcel
Zena Keefe as Musette
Frederick Truesdell as Author (credited as Frederick C. Truesdell)
D. J. Flanagan as Schaunard

unbilled

Juliette Clarens

Preservation

A print of La Bohème survives at George Eastman House Motion Picture Collection.^[3] This film only survived because MGM purchased it for rights purposes to remake the story with Lillian Gish in 1926.^[4]

References

^ The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1911-20 published by The American Film Institute, c.1988
^ Pictorial History of the Silent Screen by Daniel Blum, c. 1953, p. 112
^ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: La Bohème
^ by David Pierce writing in The Survival of American Silent Feature Films: 1912-1929 (September 2013), p. 40