Salomy Jane (1914 film)

Salomy Jane
"Tell us just one fairy tale, S'lomy"
Directed byWilliam Nigh
Lucius Henderson
Written byPaul Armstrong (play and screenplay)
Bret Harte (novella)
Produced byAlexander E. Beyfuss
StarringBeatriz Michelena
House Peters
CinematographyArthur A. Cadwell
Arthur Powelson
Distributed byAlco Film Corporation
Release date
  • November 2, 1914 (1914-11-02)
Running time
87 minutes (seven reels)[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguagesSilent
English intertitles

Salomy Jane is a 1914 silent Western drama film based on Bret Harte's 1898 novella "Salomy Jane's Kiss" and Paul Armstrong's 1907 play based on Harte's story, Salomy Jane.[2]

Salomy Jane was California Motion Picture Corporation's (CMPC) debut feature, as well as the screen debut of stage actress and singer Beatriz Michelena.[1] George E. Middleton saw in his Latina wife a competitor to Mary Pickford as a premier screen star, and each CMPC production was intended to be a Michelena vehicle. Despite being well received by the public, it did not return a profit for the national distributor, Alco Films. It is the only known surviving complete work of silent film era actress Beatriz Michelena and the CMPC.

House Peters lifts Beatriz Michelena onto his horse
  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference NFPF was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Harte, Bret (April 14, 1910). Salomy Jane. Houghton Mifflin – via Internet Archive.