The Star of Bethlehem (film)

The Star of Bethlehem is a 1912 American silent historical drama film produced by Edwin Thanhouser and Charles J. Hite, and featuring Florence La Badie, James Cruze, and William Russell. The film is a retelling of Biblical events preceding the Nativity of Jesus. Directed by Lawrence Marston, the entire film is staged as brief tableaux. With much of the original lost onlyminutes survive, the existing footage can be difficult to interpret as a coherent whole.

This film was produced by the Thanhouser Company in 1912. In later life, La Badie described her role of Mary as the favorite of her career.The film was originally shot on three full reels. Today, only a onereel edited version survives and is preserved at the BFI National Archive and the John E. Allen, Incorporated archive. The surviving footage is now in the public domain. Because no copyright number exists in the film, it is possible that it was never officially copyrighted at the time of its release. ........

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