While Paris Sleeps

For the 1925 René Clair film, Paris Which Sleeps, see The Crazy Ray.

While Paris Sleeps
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Directed by	Maurice Tourneur
Produced by	Maurice Tourneur
Based on	The Glory of Love by Leslie Beresford
Starring	Lon Chaney John Gilbert Mildred Manning Hardee Kirkland
Cinematography	René Guissart
Distributed by	W. W. Hodkinson Corp.
Release dates	January 21, 1923 (1923-01-21)
Running time	60 min
Country	USA
Language	Silent film English intertitles

While Paris Sleeps (1923) is a film based on the novel The Glory of Love by Leslie Beresford (aka Pan), directed by Maurice Tourneur, and starring Lon Chaney and John Gilbert. The film is believed to be lost.

Synopsis

Henri Santados (Lon Chaney) is sculptor living in Paris. He's in love with his model, Bebe Larvache (Mildred Manning), who cares nothing for him. She meets a wealthy American, Dennis O'Keefe (John Gilbert), and they grow affectionate. A jealous Santados teams up with Father Marionette (Jack F. MacDonald), a wax museum owner, to get rid of O'Keefe. Meanwhile, O'Keefe's father (Hardee Kirkland), who objects to the relationship, convinces Larvache to leave O'Keefe for his own good. She requests at have one final night with Dennis at the Mardi Gras festival. O'Keefe goes to pick Larvache up at the studio, but Santados tricks her into a compromising position, which makes O'Keefe think she's cheating. Heartbroken, he leaves, and is captured by Marionette, who tortures him in the wax museum. Marionette calls Santados, and Larvache hears O'Keefe over the phone. A friend of O'Keefe, Georges Morier, (J. Farrell MacDonald) manages to find him in time, and rushes him to the hospital, where O'Keefe's father finally consents to the marriage

Background

Filmed in 1920 but not released until 1923.

External links

• While Paris Sleeps at IMDb
• While Paris Sleeps at the TCM Movie Database
• While Paris Sleeps at silentera.com