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The Dumb Girl of Portici is a 1916 American silent historical drama film directed by Phillips Smalley and Lois Weber and starring Anna Pavlova, Rupert Julian and Wadsworth Harris. It was adapted by Weber from the libretto by Germain Delavigne and Eugène Scribe for Daniel Auber's 1828 opera La muette de Portici ( The Mute of Portici ).
Currently you are able to watch "The Dumb Girl of Portici" streaming on Criterion Channel. Synopsis Fenella, a poor Italian girl, falls in love with a Spanish nobleman, but their affair triggers a revolution and national catastrophe.
- Phillips Smalley, Lois Weber
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- George A. Williams
The Dumb Girl of Portici. Two trailblazing women artists—filmmaker Lois Weber and Russian ballet superstar Anna Pavlova—joined forces to create this long-unseen landmark of silent cinema, the first blockbuster ever directed by a woman.
A poor Italian woman's (Anna Pavlova) affair with a disguised Spanish nobleman triggers a revolution.
- Lois Weber, Phillips Smalley
- Romance
Fenella, a poor Italian girl, falls in love with a Spanish nobleman, but their affair triggers a revolution and national catastrophe. In the beginning of the Seventeenth Century, the Spanish Viceroys who had been sent to rule Italy, grew rich from the heavy taxes imposed on the poverty-stricken people.
Disguised as one of them, Alphonso, the duke's son, goes among the common people to gauge their feelings and falls in love with Fenella, the dumb girl of Portici, a small Italian village. He visits her frequently, but then breaks her heart when he marries Elvira, a woman from his own class.
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In the seventeenth century, Masaniello, a fisherman with revolutionary ideals, lives with his sister Fenella in Portici, near Naples. Fenella is stupid, but she can dance well. She falls in love with Alphonse, the son of the local tyrant.
