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Lily of the Dust, the 1924 Dimitri Buchowetzki silent romantic love triangle melodrama ("The Story of a Girl Who Fascinated Many Men!"; "From the novel by Hermann Sudermann and the play by Edward Sheldon Adapted by Paul Bern"; about a girl who goes to work in a bookstore after her mother goes insane, and she gets involved in a love triangle with a young Lieutenant and his commanding officer!) starring Pola Negri (in the title role as Lily), Ben Lyon, Noah Beery Sr., Raymond Griffith, Jeanette Daudet, and William J. Kelly. Note that Pola Negri had been a huge European star, but her first few American movies were not all that successful, so Paramount imported Russian director Dimitri Buchowetzki, who had directed her in Europe, in the hopes that he could match his successes in the United States. They hired Paul Bern (who later achieved fame as the husband of Jean Harlow, who committed suicide under cryptic circumstances) to write the screenplay. The pair wrote and directed "Men" in 1924, and then followed it up immediately with this movie, "Lily of the Dust". But Negri never matched her European success, and Buchowetzki had little success in the U.S. either. This is a "lost" film, which means that no surviving copies are thought to exist.
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