The Idol Dancer

The Idol Dancer is a 1920 American silent drama film produced and directed by D. W. Griffith. It stars Richard Barthelmess and Clarine Seymour in her final film role. Seymour was a young actress Griffith was grooming for stardom. She died of pneumonia shortly after emergency surgery for an intestinal blockage on April 24, 1920, less than a month after the film premiered.

Mary Seymour is the daughter of a French man and a Javanese mother and enjoys dancing. She has two lovers, one being a beachcomber Barthelmess who was tossed off a passing ship for failing to work and desires only to drink gin. The other is a sickly young American Kincaid who has come to the island in hope of regaining his health and is staying with his missionary uncle MacQuarrie and his wife Bruce. Natives from a neighboring island attack. The beachcomber reforms and Mary comes to love him.Griffith filmed exteriors for The Idol Dancer simultaneously with The Love Flower 1920, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and Nassau, Bahamas in December 1919. ........

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