Top Cast
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John Barrymore
Svengali
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Marian Marsh
Trilby O'Farrell
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Donald Crisp
The Laird
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Bramwell Fletcher
Billee
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Carmel Myers
Madame Honorine
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Luis Alberni
Gecko
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Lumsden Hare
Monsieur Taffy
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Paul Porcasi
Bonelli
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Ferike Boros
Marta (uncredited)
Overview
A music maestro uses hypnotism on a young model he meets in Paris to make her both his muse and wife.
Rating
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CinemaSerf7 Jun 13, 2022John Barrymore is super as the eponymous mystic composer who entrances "Trilby" (Marian Marsh) after she comes to his studio with a desire to be a star; and a tendency to have headaches. Soon his avarice is evident as he ruthlessly exploits his charge (despite/because of his unrequited love for her) - to attain fame and fortune. The story tells the rise and fall tale cleverly, and pacily - with some great contributions from the wily Donald Crisp as the tight-fisted but generous spirited "Laird" and Luis Alberni as his long suffering violinist "Gecko". Dewy-eyed Bramwell Fletcher as "Little Billee" is less convincing as her true love, but this is a great partial-adaptation of George Du Maurier's late 19th century tale of ambition, love and power.
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