Romola (1924)
102 min
In Renaissance Florence, a Florentine trader meets a shipwrecked stranger, who introduces himself as Tito Melema, a young Italianate-Greek scholar. Tito becomes acquainted with several other Florentines, including Nello the barber and a young girl named Tessa. He is also introduced to a blind scholar named Bardo de' Bardi, and his daughter Romola. As Tito becomes settled in Florence, assisting Bardo with classical studies, he falls in love with Romola.
- Release date
- December 6, 1924
- Country of origin
- United States
- Box office
- $497,234
Cast
- Lillian Gish as Romola
- Dorothy Gish as Tessa
- William Powell as Tito Melema
- Ronald Colman as Carlo Bucellini
- Charles Lane as Baldassar Calvo
- Herbert Grimwood as Savonarola
- Bonaventura Ibáñez as Bardo Bardi
- Frank Puglia as Adolfo Spini
- Amelia Summerville as Brigida
- Tina Ceccaci Renaldi as Monna Ghita
Crew
- Henry King · Director
- George Eliot · Writer
- Will M. Ritchey · Writer
- Jules Furthman · Writer
- Don Bartlett · Writer
- Henry King · Producer
- Louis F. Gottschalk · Composer
- Roy F. Overbaugh · Cinematographer
- William Schurr · Cinematographer
- Duncan Mansfield · Editor