On the other side of the First World War came yet another version of Stephenson's transformation tale. This was a more sexually-charged take on the story directed by John S Stevenson and starring top US actor John Barrymore in both roles. Besides Jekyll having a fiance, Millicent Carew, Hyde acquires his own girlfriend Gina an Italian dancer who it is suggested first awakens Jekyll's baser instincts.
Martha Mansfield ( as Millicent )
Sex : Nothing but some of her dresses are quite low-cut for the time
Death : Survives
Martha ( real surname Ehrlich ) became a big name on the back of this film but her career was tragically cut short in 1923 when a tossed match ignited her costume on the set of The Warrens of Virginia and she died from the burns received hours later.
Nita Naldi ( as Gina )
Sex : Gina's sexual relationship with Hyde occurs offscreen but her dancing costume is quite skimpy with the outline of her left nipple clearly visible in some frames
Death : Survives
Nita was actually Mary Dooley , a New Yorker of Irish extraction. Her film career ended when talkies came in but her career as a vaudeville actress continued. She died in 1961 aged 66.
Two other girls are molested in a bar by Hyde during the film but there seems to be no record of their names.
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