The Butterfly (1915)
Melodrama | 10 May 1915
World Film Corp. announced in the 24 October 1914 Moving Picture World that Clara Kimball Young would be starring in a film adaptation of Henry Kitchell Webster's current novel, The Butterfly. The film was planned for a December 1914 release. However, this early production did not come to fruition, and Miss Young was not involved in the eventual film.
The 9 January 1915 Variety noted that Howard Estabrook and Barbara Tennant had been picked as the romantic leads for The Butterfly, and filming would be done in the South. Three weeks later, according to the 30 January 1915 Motography they were working in and around Jacksonville, Florida. Director O. A. C. Lund simultaneously shot a second film, M'liss (see entry), starring the same actors, over a period of at least six weeks. Florida locations, which included an alligator farm, were Orlando, Mayport, and St. Augustine. Orlando was chosen because it was the winter home of the "Johnny Jones Show," which was needed for a circus scene. Filming was also done in Asheville, NC, but this footage was apparently used for M'liss. The 20 February 1915 Motography reported that the company was expected to return home to World Film's Fort Lee, NJ, studios that week. ...
World Film Corp. announced in the 24 October 1914 Moving Picture World that Clara Kimball Young would be starring in a film adaptation of Henry Kitchell Webster's current novel, The Butterfly. The film was planned for a December 1914 release. However, this early production did not come to fruition, and Miss Young was not involved in the eventual film.
The 9 January 1915 Variety noted that Howard Estabrook and Barbara Tennant had been picked as the romantic leads for The Butterfly, and filming would be done in the South. Three weeks later, according to the 30 January 1915 Motography they were working in and around Jacksonville, Florida. Director O. A. C. Lund simultaneously shot a second film, M'liss (see entry), starring the same actors, over a period of at least six weeks. Florida locations, which included an alligator farm, were Orlando, Mayport, and St. Augustine. Orlando was chosen because it was the winter home of the "Johnny Jones Show," which was needed for a circus scene. Filming was also done in Asheville, NC, but this footage was apparently used for M'liss. The 20 February 1915 Motography reported that the company was expected to return home to World Film's Fort Lee, NJ, studios that week.
A hunchback plots revenge against a beautiful American woman who, while vacationing in Egypt, scorned him. Years later in America, the woman's stepdaughter, Elaine Arthur, is lured into show business by the hunchback, who assists her in becoming a dancer. Accompanied by the hunchback and her suitor John Butler, Elaine tours the country as "The Butterfly." During a performance near her hometown, Elaine's stepmother, sister, and an old admirer appear in the audience. The hunchback is so enraged by the sight of the stepmother that he follows her to her hotel room and stabs her to death. He then flees and falls from a cliff. The hunchback's death is blamed on Butler, but he manages to escape with Elaine in a freight car. After detectives trace them to a distant town, Elaine learns that the hunchback confessed before dying. She proves Butler's innocence and they ...
A hunchback plots revenge against a beautiful American woman who, while vacationing in Egypt, scorned him. Years later in America, the woman's stepdaughter, Elaine Arthur, is lured into show business by the hunchback, who assists her in becoming a dancer. Accompanied by the hunchback and her suitor John Butler, Elaine tours the country as "The Butterfly." During a performance near her hometown, Elaine's stepmother, sister, and an old admirer appear in the audience. The hunchback is so enraged by the sight of the stepmother that he follows her to her hotel room and stabs her to death. He then flees and falls from a cliff. The hunchback's death is blamed on Butler, but he manages to escape with Elaine in a freight car. After detectives trace them to a distant town, Elaine learns that the hunchback confessed before dying. She proves Butler's innocence and they marry.
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