Opera singer Renee Dupree is in love with struggling composer Julian who falls very seriously ill. She goes to impresario Mueller for the money Julian needs but is saved from sacrificing her virtue when a jealous lover kills Mueller.
Hector Turnbull, William C. de Mille
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A feverish nocturne spun from chiaroscuro candlelight and tremulous strings, Temptation is less a story than a perfume—musk, benzoin, and gunpowder—wafting from the screen after a century of neglect. Geraldine Farrar, the Metropolitan Opera’s flame-draped diva, transposes her clarion vibrato into the visual octave wi...
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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
Cecil B. DeMille
Cecil B. DeMille
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" A feverish nocturne spun from chiaroscuro candlelight and tremulous strings, Temptation is less a story than a perfume—musk, benzoin, and gunpowder—wafting from the screen after a century of neglect. Geraldine Farrar, the Metropolitan Opera’s flame-draped diva, transposes her clarion vibrato into the visual octave without a tremor. She enters in a vermilion cape, eyes scanning the cobblestones as though every shadow owes her rent. The camera, still shackled to stationary tableaux in 1915, drin..."
