Lily of the Dust

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]

Lily of the Dust
Film poster
Directed by	Dimitri Buchowetzki
Written by	Paul Bern (scenario)
Based on	Das hohe Lied (novel) by Hermann Sudermann The Song of Songs (play) by Edward Sheldon
Produced by	Adolph Zukor Jesse L. Lasky
Starring	Pola Negri Ben Lyon
Cinematography	Alvin Wyckoff
Production company	Famous Players–Lasky
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	August 24, 1924 (1924-08-24)
Running time	7 reels, 6,811 feet
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

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).

Preservation

With no copies of Lily of the Dust located in any film archives,^[5] it is a lost film.