The Vampire Dancer
04/03/1912
The man-hungry “vampire,” later to be popularized by America’s Theda Bara, made her screen debut in this Danish melodrama directed by August Blom. Clara Wieth starred in the title role of the Vampire Dancer, which is just what she was: a dancer performing her seductions on-stage. Off-stage, the young girl is kindhearted and a bit naïve. The lustful dance, during which Robert Dinesen succumbs to the dancer’s fatal charms, remained the centerpiece of the film, which was a popular success and made Wieth an international star.
Movie Information
Clara Pontoppidan
as Silvia Lafont, the Vampire Dancer
Henry Seemann
as Count von Waldberg
Robert Dinesen
as Oscar Borch
Frederik Jacobsen
as Servant
Ingeborg Bruhn Bertelsen
as
Svend Bille
as
Axel Boesen
as
Frederik Christensen
as
Julie Henriksen
as
Johanne Krum-Hunderup
as
Otto Lagoni
as
H.C. Nielsen
as
Carl Schenstrøm
as
Agnes Nørlund Seemann
as
Birger von Cotta-Schønberg
as
Maggi Zinn
as
