Lily of the Dust

Lily of the Dust
Film poster
Directed byDimitri Buchowetzki
Written byPaul Bern (scenario)
Based on
Das hohe Lied (novel)
by Hermann Sudermann
The Song of Songs (play)
by Edward Sheldon
Produced byAdolph Zukor
Jesse L. Lasky
StarringPola Negri
Ben Lyon
CinematographyAlvin Wyckoff
Production
company
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • August 24, 1924 (1924-08-24)
Running time
7 reels, 6,811 feet
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

Lily of the Dust is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki, starring Pola Negri, produced by Famous Players–Lasky, and distributed by Paramount Pictures.[1][2] This movie was based on the 1908 novel The Song of Songs (German: Das hohe Lied) by Hermann Sudermann and the 1914 Broadway play The Song of Songs by Edward Sheldon.[3]

This film is a remake of the American silent film The Song of Songs (1918).

Plot

Cast

  • Pola Negri as Lily
  • Ben Lyon as Lieutenant Prell
  • Noah Beery as Colonel Mertzbach
  • Raymond Griffith as Karl Dehnecke
  • Jeanette Daudet as Julia
  • William J. Kelly as Walter von Prell
  • Alan George in an Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)

Production

Negri was happy working with director Buchowetzki, who had also directed her in Men (1924) and in the German film Sappho (1921), which had been released in the U.S. as Mad Love, as her performances turned out well in his films.[4] Buchowetzki would later direct her once more in the romantic drama film The Crown of Lies (1926).

Censorship

Before the film could be exhibited in Kansas, the Kansas Board of Review required the elimination of the scene where a man's corset is being laced up.[5]

Preservation

With no copies of Lily of the Dust located in any film archives,[6] it is a lost film.

References

  1. ↑ Progressive Silent Film List: Lily of the Dust at silentera.com
  2. ↑ The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30 by The American Film Institute (1971)
  3. ↑ The Song of Songs, play version of Lily of the Dust, as produced on Broadway at Eltinge 42nd Street Theatre December 22, 1914 to June 1915, 191 performances; IBDb.com
  4. ↑ Kotowski, Mariusz (2014). Pola Negri: Hollywood's First Femme Fatale. Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky. pp. 94–96. ISBN 978-0-8131-4490-0.
  5. ↑ "Kansas Board of Review Movie Index - Kansas Historical Society". www.kansashistory.gov. Retrieved September 21, 2025.
  6. ↑ "The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Lily Of The Dust". memory.loc.gov. Archived from the original on March 21, 2023. Retrieved September 21, 2025.
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