Glass Slide
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“A drama of the dancing daughters of France,” the Veiled Woman was Bela Lugosi’s on-screen sound film debut. It was also issued in a silent version. In flashback, Lia Tora’s character tells of the disreputable men who have figured in her life. Lugosi plays one of her suitors. Lia Tora is credited with co-writing the story upon which the film is based with Julio de Moraes.
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Production Company: Fox Film Corporation
Director: Emmett J. Flynn
Assistant Director: Ray Flynn
Original Story: Julio de Moraes and Lia Tora
Screenplay: Douglas Z. Dawley
Story Director: Joseph F. Poland
Cinematographer: Charles G. Clark
Running Time: 60 minutes
Copyright Number: LP298, April 15, 1929
Cast:
Lia Tora: Nanon
Paul Vincenti: Pierre
Kenneth Thomas: Dr. Donald Ross
Walter McGrail: English Dipolomatic Attache
Josef Switkard: Colonel de Selincourt
Andre Cheron: Count de Bracchi
Ivan Lebedreff: Captain Paul Fevier
Maude George: Countess de Bracchi –
Bela Lugosi: A suitor to Nanon
Lupita Tovar: Young girl
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Pittsburgh Press, April 21, 1929
The Daily Times, May 1, 1929
Reading Eagle, June 30, 1929
Lobby Cards
Stills
Bela Lugosi
Bela Lugosi and Lia Tora
(From the collection of Adele Mason aka Noufaux)