Temptation

About Temptation

Temptation is a lost 1915 American silent romantic drama film directed and produced by Cecil B. DeMille. The film starred Geraldine Farrar and Theodore Roberts and was written by and based on an original story by Hector Turnbull. Additional writing was done by DeMille and Jeanie MacPherson, who did not receive screen credit.

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Cast

Geraldine Farrar as Renee Dupree

Theodore Roberts as Otto Mueller

Pedro de Cordoba as Julian

Elsie Jane Wilson as Madame Maroff

Raymond Hatton as Baron Cheurial

Sessue Hayakawa as Opera Admirer

Jessie Arnold (uncredited)

Tex Driscoll (uncredited)

Ernest Joy (uncredited)

Anita King (uncredited)

Lucien Littlefield (uncredited)

Preservation

With no prints of Temptation located in any film archives, it is considered a lost film.

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Notable quotes

“I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people: they go commonly together.”
— Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I, Section II. Memb. 3. Subsect, XIII.
“Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colours, that are but skin-deep.”
— Matthew Henry, Commentaries, Genesis, III.
“Honest bread is very well—it's the butter that makes the temptation.”
— Douglas Jerrold, The Catspaw.
“Temptations, when we meet them at first, are as the lion that roared upon Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them.”
— John Bunyan, p. 577.
“The realization of God's presence is the one sovereign remedy against temptation.”
— François Fénelon, p. 577.
“Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what he is.”
— Thomas à Kempis, p. 578.

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