The Godless Girl (1929) is a film directed by Cecil B. DeMille, shown for years as his last completely silent film. However, the UCLA Film and Television Archive restored the film's dialogue scenes that were added during the transition of films from the silent era to the sound era, thereby restoring a film that was one of DeMille's first part-sound efforts. The title character is based on Queen Silver, a child prodigy and socialist orator. The le...
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The Godless Girl (1929) is a film directed by Cecil B. DeMille, shown for years as his last completely silent film. However, the UCLA Film and Television Archive restored the film's dialogue scenes that were added during the transition of films from the silent era to the sound era, thereby restoring a film that was one of DeMille's first part-sound efforts. The title character is based on Queen Silver, a child prodigy and socialist orator. The lead actress, Lina Basquette, named her autobiography after the film --Lina: DeMille's Godless Girl.
This drama features a romance between an atheist girl, and the male head of a Christian youth organization. The two are at odds when they are thrown into a reform school, but fall in love. The film ends with a fire that breaks out in the school; after the girl is rescued there is an epilogue in which she and the boy seem to agree that there is room for both of their views.
The film was very popular in the U.S.S.R. and in Germany, though it was a...
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