Salomy Jane (film)

Salomy Jane is a 1914 American Western feature film based on Bret Hartes 1898 novella of the same name. It is the only known surviving complete work of silent film era actress Beatriz Michelena and the California Motion Picture Corporation.

Salomy Jane was the debut California Motion Picture Corporation feature as well as screen appearance by stage actress and singer Beatriz Michelena. George E. Middleton saw in his Latina wife a competitor to Mary Pickford as a premier screen star, each production intended to be Michelenas vehicle to success. Despite being well received by the public it did not return a profit for the national distributor, Alco Film. The subsequent productions being commercial failures, did not preclude Michelena demanding startreatment perquisites that proved to much for the studio. The duo left California Motion Picture forming Beatriz Michelena Features, producing Just Squaw 1919 and The Flame of Hellgate 1920. Middleton and Michelena divorced in the 1920s.Salomy Jane 1914, long cited as the debut appearance of Jack Holt seems to be in error as he had been taking bit parts during the preceding year. It is the scene in which he rides a horse to the edge of a steep embankment then jumps off tumbling more than a hundred feet down into the Russian River. The stunt netted him a bit part as a saloon patron. ........

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