Film
An Adventuress
United States- Director
- Fred J. Balshofer
- Year
- 1920
A Genuine Novelty in Photoplay Entertainment
Filmed by Fred J. Balshofer in 1918 as the anti-German war drama Over the Rhine, the project was reshaped and released in 1920 as An Adventuress—a cross-dressing caper set in the fictional republic of Alpania and headlined by female-impersonation star Julian Eltinge, with early appearances by Rudolph Valentino and Virginia Rappe. The film was later re-edited and reissued in 1922 as The Isle of Love.
Top cast
Julian Eltinge
Clifford Townsend / Julie
Frederick Ko Vert
Lyn Brook
William Clifford
Dick Sayre
Leo White
Prince Halbere
Virginia Rappe
Vanette
Rudolph Valentino
Jacques Rudanyi
Stanton Heck
Grand Duke Nebo
Charles Millsfield
Pom Pom
Alma Francis
Eunice
Lydia Knott
Clifford Townsend's mother
Fontaine La Rue
Frank Gastrock
William Pearson
Frederick Heck
Directed by
Fred J. Balshofer
Written by
Charles A. Taylor, Fred J. Balshofer, Thomas J. Geraghty