Sacred and Profane Love (1921)
A drama of life's master emotion-its daring, its pain, its ecstasy, its terrible power to drag down, its sacred power to glorify.
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Carlotta Peel, who though sheltered from the facts of life by her Victorian aunt has acquired some knowledge from indiscriminate reading, meets Diaz, a celebrated pianist, at a concert and spends the evening with him. Later, in London, she acquires fame as a novelist and is followed to France by married publisher Frank Ispenlove, who commits suicide when she spurns him. In Paris, Carlotta finds Diaz a physical wreck from drinking absinthe and devotes herself to his regeneration.
- Release date
- May 22, 1921
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Elsie Ferguson as Carlotta Peel
- Conrad Nagel as Emilie Diaz, a pianist
- Thomas Holding as Frank Ispenlove
- Helen Dunbar as Constance Peel
- Winifred Greenwood as Mary Ispenlove
- Raymond Blathwayt as Lord Francis Alcar
- Clarissa Selwynne as Mrs. Sardis
- Howard Gaye as Albert Vicary
- Forrest Stanley as Samson
- Jane Keckley as Rebecca
Crew
- William Desmond Taylor · Director
- Arnold Bennett · Writer
- Julia Crawford Ivers · Writer
- Ted D. McCord · Cinematographer
- James Van Trees · Cinematographer