La Bohème (1916 film)

1916 film by Albert Capellani

La Bohème
(La vie de Bohème -France)

1916 advertisement

Directed by| Albert Capellani
Written by| Frances Marion (scenario)
Based on| Scènes de la vie de bohème
(1847–49) novel
by Henri Murger
Produced by| William A. Brady
Starring| Alice Brady
Paul Capellani
Cinematography| Lucien Andriot
Distributed by| World-Selznick

Release date

* June 19, 1916 (1916-06-19)

Running time

| 5 reels
Country| United States
Language| Silent (English intertitles)

La Bohème (aka: La vie de Bohème) is a 1916 American silent historical film directed by Albert Capellani and distributed by World Pictures. The star of this version is Alice Brady, whose father William A. Brady was the founder of World Pictures. This film is one of many silent versions, actually the third or fourth. Later silent versions appeared in 1917 and 1926 starring Lillian Gish. Director Albert Capellani's brother, Paul Capellani, who appears in this film, had made his own short version in 1912.[1][2]

## Plot

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## Cast

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* Alice Brady as Mimi
* Paul Capellani as Rudolphe
* June Elvidge as Madame de Rouvre
* Leslie Stowe as Durandin
* Chester Barnett as Marcel
* Zena Keefe as Musette
* Frederick Truesdell as Author (credited as Frederick C. Truesdell)
* D. J. Flanagan as Schaunard

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* Juliette Clarens

## Preservation

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A print of La Bohème survives at George Eastman House Motion Picture Collection.[3] This film only survived because MGM purchased it for rights purposes to remake the story with Lillian Gish in 1926.[4]

## References

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1. ^ The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1911-20 published by The American Film Institute, c.1988
2. ^ Pictorial History of the Silent Screen by Daniel Blum, c. 1953, p. 112
3. ^ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: La Bohème
4. ^ by David Pierce writing in The Survival of American Silent Feature Films: 1912-1929 (September 2013), p. 40

## External links

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to La Bohème (1916 film).

* La Bohème at IMDb
* La Bohème at the TCM Movie Database
* La Bohème at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films

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Films directed|

* Aladdin and His Wonder Lamp (1906)
* The Bell Ringer's Daughter (1906)
* The Law of Pardon (1906)
* L'Arlésienne (1908)
* L'Assommoir (1909)
* The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1911)
* Marie Tudor (1912)
* De afwezige (1913)
* Germinal (1913)
* The Face in the Moonlight (1915)
* Camille (1915)
* The Foolish Virgin (1916)
* La Bohème (1916)
* The Common Law (1916)
* The Feast of Life (1916)
* The Easiest Way (1917)
* Patrie (1917)
* Daybreak (1918)
* Eye for Eye (1918)
* The House of Mirth (1918)
* Social Hypocrites (1918)
* Oh, Boy! (1919)
* Out of the Fog (1919)
* The Red Lantern (1919)
* The Virtuous Model (1919)
* The Fortune Teller (1920)
* Quatre-vingt-treize (1920)
* The Inside of the Cup (1921)
* The Wild Goose (1921)
* Sisters (1922)
* The Young Diana (1922)

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Henri Murger's Scenes of Bohemian Life

Opera|

* La bohème (Puccini)
* La bohème (Leoncavallo)

Film|

* La Bohème (1926 silent)
* Mimi (1935)
* La Vie de bohème (1945)
* La Bohème (1965)
* La Vie de Bohème (1992)

Rent|

* Rent (1996 musical)
* Rent (2005 film)
* Rent: Filmed Live on Broadway (2008 film)
* Rent: Live (2019)
* Albums

Music|

* La Vie de Bohème (1969 album)
* La bohème discography
* "La Vie Bohème"
* "Seasons of Love"
* "Take Me or Leave Me"
* "Finale B"

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