22-782: The Two Orphans may refer to: The Two Orphans (play) , a French play of 1874 by Adolphe d'Ennery and Eugène Cormon The Two Orphans (1915 film) , lost 1915 film starring Theda Bara The Two Orphans (1933 film) , 1933 French film directed by Maurice Tourneur The Two Orphans (1942 film) , 1942 Italian film directed by Carmine Gallone The Two Orphans (1944 film) , 1944 Mexican film directed by José Benavides The Two Orphans (1947 film) , 1947 Italian film directed by Mario Mattoli The Two Orphans (1949 film) , 1949 Egyptian film directed by Hassan Al Imam The Two Orphans (1950 film) , 1950 Mexican film directed by Roberto Rodríguez The Two Orphans (1954 film) ( Le due orfanelle ),
44-437: A 1954 French-Italian film directed by Giacomo Gentilomo The Two Orphans (1965 film) , a French-Italian film directed by Riccardo Freda The Two Orphans (1976 film) , an Italian-Spanish film directed by Leopoldo Savona Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title The Two Orphans . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
66-568: A Nation (1915), Broken Blossoms (1919) and Way Down East (1920). Griffith used historical events to comment on contemporary events, in this case the French Revolution to warn about the rise of Bolshevism . The film is about class conflict and a plea for inter-class understanding and against destructive hatred. At one point, in front of the Committee of Public Safety , a main character pleads, "Yes I am an aristocrat, but
88-597: A child, enraging peasant father, Forget-not) meets the two outside Paris. Taken by the virginal Henriette's beauty, he has her abducted and brought to his estate where a lavish party is being held, leaving Louise helpless in the big city. An honorable aristocrat, the Chevalier de Vaudrey helps Henriette to escape de Praille and his guests by successfully fighting a duel with him. The scoundrel Mother Frochard, seeing an opportunity to make money, tricks Louise into her underground house to be kept prisoner. Unable to find Louise with
110-429: A friend of the people." The film is based on the 1874 French play Les Deux Orphelines by Adolphe d'Ennery and Eugène Cormon . Just before the French Revolution, Henriette takes her close adopted sister Louise to Paris in the hope of finding a cure for her blindness. She promises Louise that she will not marry until Louise can look upon her husband to approve him. Lustful aristocrat de Praille (whose carriage kills
132-594: A play from the 1910s is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Orphans of the Storm Orphans of the Storm is a 1921 American silent drama film by D. W. Griffith set in late-18th-century France, before and during the French Revolution . The last Griffith film to feature both Lillian and Dorothy Gish, it was a commercial failure compared to his earlier works, such as The Birth of
154-598: A retrospective review, Pauline Kael described it as an epic spectacle, "a marvellous, expensively produced mixture of melodrama and sentimentality, with duels, kidnappings, the storming of the Bastille, and Lillian Gish being saved from the guillotine." She made the assessment that it was "not one of Griffith's greatest", but it nonetheless contains memorable sequences of "theatrical sublimity". In Spike Jones ' skit "The Late Late Late Movies" ( Mercury F-55191), "Billy Playtex " announces that night's feature as "'Orphans of
176-682: Is a historical play by the French writers Adolphe d'Ennery and Eugène Cormon . It premiered on 20 January 1874 at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin in Paris . A melodrama set during the French Revolution , it takes place in five acts. The play as translated by N. Hart Jackson into English debuted in the United States at A.M. Palmer 's Union Square Theatre on December 21, 1874, played for 180 performances, and eventually proved to be one of
198-888: Is based on the 1874 French play Les Deux Orphelines by Adolphe d'Ennery and Eugène Cormon , which had been adapted for the American stage by N. Hart Jackson and Albert Marshman Palmer as The Two Orphans , premiering at Marshman Palmer's Union Square Theatre (58 E. 14th St.) in New York City in December 1874 with Kate Claxton as Louise. It had been filmed in the United States twice before Griffith did his film: in 1911 by Otis Turner and in 1915 by Herbert Brenon (the lost Theda Bara film The Two Orphans ). The play had also been filmed twice in France in 1910: by Albert Capellani and by Georges Monca. The Two Orphans ,
220-413: The Chevalier is also sent away while his aunt visits Henriette. During the meeting, Louise is heard singing outside, where Frochard has told her to walk blindly and sing. Henriette calls out from her upstairs balcony, but the panicked Louise is dragged off by Frochard and Henriette is arrested and sent to a women's prison. Louise and Frochard's begging continues with the other two Frochards, and before long
242-615: The English-language version of the play upon which the movie is based, had been a staple of the actress Kate Claxton . After the premiere at the original Union Square Theatre in 1874, she had performed it hundreds of times for various theatrical companies in New York, including the Brooklyn Theater (she was performing it there on the night of the infamous Brooklyn Theater Fire in 1876), and she had eventually acquired
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#1732798021894264-525: The Revolution begins. A battle between the Royalist soldiers and the people allied with the police, who are successful, results in aristocrats being killed and the prisoners of the "Tyrants" (including Henriette) being freed. A people's 'rag-tag' government is formed, and Forget-not takes his revenge against de Praille. Robespierre and Forget-not send Henriette and her lover, the Chevalier de Vaudrey, to
286-506: The US distribution rights to the German version so that it could not conflict with the earning potential of his own film. The film was originally released on 14 reels , although a 12-reel abridged version was made available to theaters a few months later. Despite Griffith's reputation at the box office, the film was not a financial success. The New York Times wrote: "As the vivid scenes of
308-439: The US rights to the play. In securing the film rights, Griffith had to wrangle with Claxton, who for unknown reasons seems to have been reluctant to allow the story to be filmed a third time. When Griffith completed his film for release, a rival German version of the story had been made (Claxton owned foreign film rights as well) and was being prepared for release in the US at the same time as Griffith's version. Griffith bought out
330-472: The end of Orphans in the Storm is as exciting and as beautifully executed as we have now come to expect of Griffith. Cutting between the guillotine and Henriette (Lillian Gish) and Danton (Monte Blue), racing on horseback with her pardon, the sequence is a perfect example of ‘stretched action’ in which the time taken for Gish to walk three paces in the completed sequence, now intercut with other action, takes twice or maybe three times as long. This serves to build
352-465: The guillotine, for hiding de Vaudrey, an aristocrat, who returned to Paris to find her. However, Danton manages to obtain a pardon for them. After a race through the streets of Paris he just manages to save Henriette and offers her to the Chevalier, when the two orphans unite. A doctor restores Louise's sight, she approves marriage between Henriette and the Chevalier, and a better-organized Republic forms in France. “The familiar ‘Last Minute Rescue’ towards
374-658: The help of the Chevalier, Henriette rents a room, but before leaving her de Vaudrey comforts and kisses the distressed woman. Later, Henriette gives shelter to admirable politician Danton, who after an attack by Royalist spies following a public speech falls for her. As a result, she runs foul of the radical revolutionary Robespierre, a friend of Danton. Mother Frochard forces Louise into begging. Meanwhile, de Vaudrey proposes to Henriette and she refuses. After expressing love for each other, he promises Henriette that Louise will be found. King Louis XVI orders Henriette to be arrested, due to his disapproval of de Vaudrey's choice of wife, and
396-408: The historically colored melodrama flashed one after another on the screen everyone surely felt that Griffith was himself again" but added "The seasoned spectator, no matter how he may let himself go, knows that every delay is a device to heighten the suspense and every advantage given the rescuers is calculated to evoke his cheers (...) whatever he does, he is not surprised when the girl is saved". In
418-432: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Two_Orphans&oldid=1215946094 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages The Two Orphans (play) The Two Orphans (French: Les Deux orphelines )
440-586: The most performed melodramas in the country for the next few decades. Odell's Annals of the New York Stage called it "one of the greatest theatrical successes of all time in America." Kate Claxton made her career in the role of Louise, and she later purchased the performance rights to the play and played it widely for years. It was also the play being performed during the December 1876 Brooklyn Theatre fire that killed at least 278 people. The play
462-549: The suspense inasmuch as it creates an almost unbearable sense of impatience.” - Film historian Paul O’Dell in Griffith and the Rise of Hollywood (1970) The movie uses several visual effects throughout to capture the emotion of its story, using monochromic filters of red, blue, green, yellow and sepia to show feeling with the silent action which is accompanied by music; the movie also uses fade-ins to achieve this effect. The film
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#1732798021894484-403: Was revived on Broadway in 1904 (56 performances) and 1926 (32 performances). It was also adapted to film at least four times during the silent film era starting in 1908. The play has been turned into many other works including an 1877 novel written by the same authors, an 1878 Portuguese opera, D.W. Griffith 's 1921 film Orphans of the Storm , and numerous other films. This article on
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