A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2024 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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	Gloria Swanson. Frame enlargement: Silent Era image collection.

Cast: Gloria Swanson [Zaza], H.B. Warner [Bernard Dufresne, a diplomat], Ferdinand Gottschalk [Duke de Brissac], Lucille La Verne [Aunt Rosa], Mary Thurman [Florianne, a soubrette], Yvonne Hughes [Nathalie, Zaza’s maid], Riley Hatch [Rigault, a theater manager], Roger Lytton [the stage manager], Ivan Linow [the Apache], Helen Mack

Famous Players-Lasky Corporation production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation. / Produced by Adolph Zukor. Scenario by Albert Shelby Le Vino, from the play Zaza by Pierre François Samuel Berton and Charles Simon. Cinematography by Hal Rosson (Harold Rosson). Presented by Adolph Zukor. / © 9 October 1923 by Famous Players-Lasky Corporation [LP19484]. Released 16 September 1923. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The production was shot at Paramount’s Astoria studios on Long Island, New York; Swanson’s first film shot there. The play was previously filmed as Zaza (1915).

Drama.

Survival status: Prints exist in the George Eastman Museum film archive; and in the Library of Congress film archive.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Actresses - Affairs - Children - Love triangles

Listing updated: 24 May 2017.

References: AFI-F1 n. F1.5184; AFI-F2 n. F2.6604; Bogdanovich-Dwan pp. 65-66, 67; Brownlow-Parade p. 101; Hudson-Swanson pp. 163, 164; Kobal-Fifty p. 25; Quirk-Swanson pp. 28, 35, 147-149, 151, 152; Sweeney-Coming p. 60; Vermilye-Twenties p. 118 : Website-AFI : with additional information provided by Pete Jones.

Home video: Blu-ray Disc, DVD.