The Black Butterfly

1916 film by Burton L. King

December 4, 1916 (1916-12-04)

Running time

5 reelsCountryUnited StatesLanguageSilent (English intertitles)

Scene from the film.

Newspaper advertisement

The Black Butterfly is a lost^[1] 1916 American silent drama film released by Metro Pictures, starring Olga Petrova.^[2] The last known copy was destroyed in the 1965 MGM vault fire. Extant footage was posted online in 2019.^[3]

Cast

Olga Petrova as Sonia Smirnov/Marie, the convent girl
Mahlon Hamilton as Alan Hall
Anthony Merlo as Girard
Count Lewenhaupt as Lachaise
Edward Brennan as Lord Braislin
Violet Reed as Lady Constance Braislin
John Hopkins as Don Luis Maredo
Morgan Jones as Peter, father of Sonia
Norman Kerry as Vladimir (as Norman Kaiser)
Roy Pilcher as Gaston Duval
Evelyn Dumo as Ciel, Sonia's maid

References

^ "Black Butterfly". Lcweb2.loc.gov. 13 January 2018. Retrieved 13 January 2018.
^ "Detail view of Movies Page". Afi.com. Retrieved 13 January 2018.
^ "IDENTIFIED: "THE BLACK BUTTERFLY" (1916)". .flickr.com. 20 November 2019. Retrieved 18 December 2019.

External links

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Films directed by Burton L. King

Under the Crescent (1915)
The Black Butterfly (1916)
Extravagance (1916)
The Eternal Question (1916)
The Spell of the Yukon (1916)
The Devil at His Elbow (1916)
More Truth Than Poetry (1917)
Public Defender (1917)
The Waiting Soul (1917)
The Silence Sellers (1917)
The Soul of a Magdalen (1917)
To the Death (1917)
Her Husband's Honor (1918)
Treason (1918)
The Master Mystery (1918)
The Lost Battalion (1919)
A Scream in the Night (1919)
Why Women Sin (1920)
For Love or Money (1920)
Everyman's Price (1921)
The Man from Beyond (1922)
The Streets of New York (1922)
The Empty Cradle (1923)
The Fair Cheat (1923)
None So Blind (1923)
The Man Without a Heart (1924)
The Masked Dancer (1924)
The Truth About Women (1924)
Playthings of Desire (1924)
Those Who Judge (1924)
Counsel for the Defense (1925)
The Mad Dancer (1925)
The Police Patrol (1925)
Ermine and Rhinestones (1925)
A Little Girl in a Big City (1925)
A Bowery Cinderella (1927)
Broadway Madness (1927)
The House of Shame (1928)
The Adorable Cheat (1928)
Broken Barriers (1928)
Manhattan Knights (1928)
Satan and the Woman (1928)
Women Who Dare (1928)
Daughters of Desire (1929)
The Dream Melody (1929)
In Old California (1929)
When Lightning Strikes (1934)

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