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Forty Winks, the 1925 Paul Iribe & Frank Urson silent spy espionage inheritance romantic comedy ("Folks will laugh who have never laughed before!"; "From the play 'Lord Chumley' by David Belasco and Henry C. DeMille"; about the lawyer for a rich family who frames one of the family members for the theft of plans to defend California and also on the Secret Service agent who is engaged to the family's daughter; a prominent role of an "Eurasian Adventuress" is played by Anna May Wong!) starring Viola Dana, Raymond Griffith, Theodore Roberts, Cyril Chadwick, William Boyd, and Anna May Wong. Note that this is a "lost" film which means that no surviving copies are thought to exist. Also note that the play that this movie was based on was co-written by David Belasco and Henry C. DeMille, and that DeMille was the father of famed director Cecil B. DeMille. He is mostly forgotten, except by major film buffs, but the other DeMille might have been a major figure in early cinema. He was a director and producer of plays in the 1880s, and he formed a partnership with David Belasco, another major playwright and producer, but the two had a falling out when DeMille became a "Georgist" (somewhat like a modern day socialist). He planned to devote his life to that, but two years later, he contracted typhoid and died, when young Cecil B. was just 12 years old. Belasco went on to become a major figure in early cinema, and it is quite possible that DeMille's connection to Belasco through his father helped his early career!
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