Revelation 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...

 film starring Viola Dana

Viola Dana

Viola Dana was an American film actress who was successful during the era of silent movies.- Career :Born Virginia Flugrath, Dana was a child star, appearing on the stage at the age of three. She read Shakespeare and particularly identified with the teenage Juliet. She enjoyed a long run at the...

, Monte Blue

Monte Blue

Monte Blue was a movie actor who began his career as a romantic leading man in the silent film era, and later progressed to character roles....

 and Lew Cody

Lew Cody

Lew Cody, birth name Louis Joseph Côté was an American actor whose career spanned the silent film and early sound film age....

. The film was directed and written by George D. Baker

George D. Baker

George D. Baker was an American motion picture director whose career began near the dawn of the silent film era.-Early life:George Duane Baker was born at Champaign, Illinois on the 22nd of April, 1868,...

, based upon a popular novel, The Rosebud of a Thousand Years. Ms. Viola Dana was one of the top stars of the newly-amalgamated MGM, a lively comedienne who enjoyed a long career that faded with the emergence of the talkies.

Plot

Joline Hofer (Viola Dana) is a profligate Montmartre dancer who left her illegitimate child in a convent. Paul Granville (Monte Blue) is an American artist who becomes smitten by the dancer, and uses her for his portraits of great women. When one of Paul's paintings, of the Madonna, appears to result in a miracle, Joline's life is changed forever, as she reforms, reclaims her child and marry the artist.

Cast

• Viola Dana
  Viola Dana
  Viola Dana was an American film actress who was successful during the era of silent movies.- Career :Born Virginia Flugrath, Dana was a child star, appearing on the stage at the age of three. She read Shakespeare and particularly identified with the teenage Juliet. She enjoyed a long run at the...
  
   - Joline Hofer
• Monte Blue
  Monte Blue
  Monte Blue was a movie actor who began his career as a romantic leading man in the silent film era, and later progressed to character roles....
  
   - Paul Granville
• Marjorie Daw - Mademoiselle Brevoort
• Lew Cody
  Lew Cody
  Lew Cody, birth name Louis Joseph Côté was an American actor whose career spanned the silent film and early sound film age....
  
   - Count Adrian de Roche
• Frank Currier
  Frank Currier
  Frank Currier was an American actor and director of the silent era. He appeared in 133 films between 1912 and 1928. He also directed 19 films in 1916...
  
   - Prior
• Edward Connelly
  Edward Connelly
  Edward Connelly was an American stage and film actor of the silent era. He had a long established Broadway theatre career going back to the Victorian era...
  
   - Augustin
• Kathleen Key
  Kathleen Key
  Kathleen Key was an American actress who achieved a brief period of fame during the silent era. She is best remembered for playing Tirzah in the 1925 film Ben-Hur. Key was the great-great granddaughter of Francis Scott Key, composer of "The Star Spangled Banner", and a distant cousin of author F...
  
   - Madonna
• Ethel Wales
  Ethel Wales
  Ethel Wales was a Passaic, New Jersey-born American actress, who appeared in 130 films between the years 1920 and 1950. She had one son named Wellington Charles Wales.- Selected filmography :* Miss Lulu Bett * Manslaughter...
  
   - Madame Hofer
• George Siegmann
  George Siegmann
  George Siegmann was an American actor in the silent film era. His more notable roles include Silas Lynch in Griffith's Birth of A Nation , the guard in the 1927 film The Cat and the Canary, Porthos in The Three Musketeers , Bill Sikes in Oliver Twist , and Dr...
  
   - Hofer
• Otto Matieson
  Otto Matieson
  Otto Matieson was a Danish actor of the silent era. He appeared in 45 films between 1920 and 1931.He was born in Copenhagen, Denmark and died in Safford, Arizona.-Selected filmography:...
  
   - Du Clos
• Bruce Guerin - Jean Hofer