The Masked Bride [SEP] cast member
The Masked Bride
The Masked Bride is a 1925 American silent romantic drama film directed by Christy Cabanne and starring Mae Murray, Francis X. Bushman, and Basil Rathbone. It is currently a lost film.
Synopsis.
Apache dancer Gaby (Mae Murray) defies the Prefect of Police (Roy D'Arcy) after accosting millionaire Grover (Francis X. Bushman). The underlying truth is that Gaby was driven to theft of rich men by her partner Antoine (Basil Rathbone).
Cast.
- Mae Murray as Gaby
other member of the cast of "The Captive", a play in which his character's wife left him for another woman. Though the charges were eventually dropped, Rathbone was very angry about the censorship because he believed that homosexuality needed to be brought into the open.
He commenced his film career in 1921 in silent movies and appeared in 1923's "School for Scandal", later appearing in "The Masked Bride", appeared in a few silent films, and played the detective Philo Vance in the 1930 film