Star of silent film ‘The Pagan’, one of the last survivors of the era
In tribute to Dorothy Janis, one of the longest surviving stars of silent film, who died on 10 March, 2010, aged 100.
Her film career was fleeting, but she was best remembered for starring along Ramón Novarro in The Pagan (1929).
Her other films were Kit Carson (1928), Fleetwing (1928), The Overland Telegraph (1929) and Lummox (1930).
But she abandoned her career after a storm of controversy. The wife of a technician sued the pretty brunette for $25,000 for “stealing her husband’s affections” during the shooting of The White Captive (which was never released).
The suit was dropped, but Janis met her husband around this time and decided to give up film-making.
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