Call of the Flesh

Call of the Flesh is a 1930 American PreCode musical film directed by Charles Brabin. The film stars Ramon Novarro, Dorothy Jordan, and Rene Adore. It featured several songs performed by Novarro and originally included a sequence photographed in Technicolor.

This film marked Novarros fourth film appearance with Rene Adore, and his third with Dorothy Jordan. Charles Brabin had been the original director on Novarros BenHur before Brabin had been fired from that project however, the firing had taken place before Novarros hiring, and the two had thus not worked together on that film. Novarro would later claim that he, not Brabin, actually directed most of Call of the Flesh.Novarro insisted that Rene Adore be cast in the film opposite him, despite the fact that she was extremely ill with tuberculosis. and the actress suffered two hemorrhages during production which almost shut the project down. In one instance, Novarro tried to convince production supervisor Hunt Stromberg to relieve Adore of her duties and reshoot her material with another actress, offering to waive his salary, but Stromberg insisted, against doctors orders, that it would be too expensive. After completing her last scene, Adore had a second hemorrhage again and lost consciousness she was rushed to a sanitarium in La Crescenta. Though Adore survived two more years, her health effectively ended her chances at a continued career. Call of the Flesh was her last film. ........

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