Circe, the Enchantress is a 1924

1924 in film

-Events:* Entertainment entrepreneur Marcus Loew gained control of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer Pictures to create Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...

 drama film

Drama film

A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

 directed by Robert Z. Leonard

Robert Z. Leonard

Robert Zigler Leonard was an American film director, actor, producer and screenwriter.He was born in Chicago, Illinois...

 and starring Mae Murray

Mae Murray

Mae Murray was an American actress, dancer, film producer, and screenwriter. Murray rose to fame during the silent film era and was known as "The Girl with the Bee-Stung Lips" and "The Gardenia of the Screen"....

. This was their last collaboration, and they divorced soon after. This film is considered lost.

Plot

Cecilie Brunner was once a goodnatured woman. After the death of her mother, she becomes a cynical vamp. She falls in love with surgeon Peter Van Martyn. Peter makes clear he does not approve her life style. This results in Cecilie even partying more. She ends up gambling her home away. Realizing her life style isn't appropriate, Cecilie changes back into a sweet woman. However, she is paralyzed after being hit by a car, while saving a child. It is Peter who heals her.

Cast

• Mae Murray
  Mae Murray
  Mae Murray was an American actress, dancer, film producer, and screenwriter. Murray rose to fame during the silent film era and was known as "The Girl with the Bee-Stung Lips" and "The Gardenia of the Screen"....
  
   - Circe (mythical goddess)/Cecilie Brunne
• James Kirkwood, Sr.
  James Kirkwood, Sr.
  James Kirkwood, Sr. was an American actor and director....
  
   - Dr. Peter Van Martyn
• Tom Ricketts
  Tom Ricketts
  Thomas "Tom" Ricketts was an English American silent film actor, director and screenwriter who was involved in almost 350 motion pictures....
  
   - Archibald Crumm
• Charles K. Gerrard
  Charles K. Gerrard
  Charles K. Gerrard , also known as Charles Kavanagh, was an Irish motion-picture actor, and the elder brother of actor and film director Douglas Gerrard.-Filmography:* The Plow Girl...
  
   - Ballard 'Bal' Barrett
• William Haines
  William Haines
  Charles William "Billy" Haines was an American film actor and interior designer. He was a star of the silent era until the 1930s, when Haines' career was cut short by MGM Studios due to his refusal to deny his homosexuality...
  
   - William Craig
• Lillian Langdon
  Lillian Langdon
  Lillian Langdon was a New Jersey-born American film actress of the silent era. She appeared in 86 films between 1912 and 1928.She died in Santa Monica, California, aged 82.-Selected filmography:...
  
   - Sister Agatha
• Gene Cameron - 'Madame' Ducelle (modiste)

External links

• Circe the Enchantress at silentera.com