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For 13 years before Giacomo Puccini introduced Tosca as an opera in 1900, the work was known to the public as a romantic tragedy written for Sara Bernhardt by Victorien Sardou. Here, for the silent film version of the play, we have a heroine, who looks very Bo-Peepish in comparison to the operas knife-wielding prima donna. Framed by weeping willow branches and holding a beribboned staff, she wears high heels and a a costume that hardly dates from 1800 when the play supposedly takes place. With brown ringlets and heavy-lidded eyes, her face is rendered in much more detail than the rest of the design-possibly because I is meant to be a portrait of the unnamed star. Rare.

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