While Paris Sleeps

While Paris Sleeps (1923)

When a sculptor falls in love with his model but finds his love unrequited, he plans to kill his love rival with the help of the owner of a Horror Wax museum. The film is considered lost.

Date of release
1923-01-21
TMDB
10.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 0m
Genres
Horror
Director
Maurice Tourneur

Casting

Interesting facts

While Paris Sleeps, aka The Glory of Love, is a 1923 American silent drama film based on the novel The Glory of Love by Leslie Beresford, directed by Maurice Tourneur, and starring Lon Chaney and John Gilbert. Whoever wrote the screenplay adaptation went uncredited, but some sources claim it was Wyndham Gittens. Special effects were by Floyd Mueller.

Production

Tourneur shot the film in 1920 under the title The Glory of Love, but perhaps due to its gruesome nature, he was not able to get it released for three years. In 1923, the W. W. Hodkinson Corporation distributed the film theatrically after changing the title to While Paris Sleeps.

Lon Chaney reunited with John Gilbert in 1924 in He Who Gets Slapped, and director Tod Browning later cast John Gilbert in his 1927 film The Show. Gilbert later became engaged to Greta Garbo, and drifted off into a string of big budget Hollywood romantic drama films, before dying in 1936 from heart failure.

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