Romola

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Romola is a 1924 American drama film directed by Henry King and shot on location in Italy. The film stars Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, William Powell and Ronald Colman, and is based on the George Eliot novel of the same name. A copy of the film survives at the UCLA Film and Television Archive.

This was the second film in which Henry King directed Lillian Gish and Ronald Colman for Inspiration Films, an independent production company which chiefly consisted of King, Charles Duell, and stars Lillian Gish and Richard Barthelmess.

Plot

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.

Cast

Lillian Gish as Romola
Dorothy Gish as Tessa
William Powell as Tito Melema (as William H. Powell)
Ronald Colman as Carlo Bucellini
Charles Lane as Baldassar Calvo (*Charles Willis Lane)
Herbert Grimwood as Savonarola
Bonaventura Ibez as Bardo Bardi
Frank Puglia as Adolfo Spini
Amelia Summerville as Brigida
Tina Ceccaci Renaldi as Monna Ghita
Eduilio Mucci as Nello
Angela Scatigna as Bratti
Ugo Uccellini as Bishop of Nemours
Alfredo Martinelli as Captain of the Barque
Attilo Deodati as Tomaso

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