the United States and worked for the film studios Pathé Exchange, Metro Pictures Corporation, the World Film Company, Cosmopolitan Productions, Nazimova Productions, and his own newly created studio, Capellani Productions, Inc. Under his direction, Alla Nazimova rose to prominence as one of the greatest silent film stars in Hollywood. Capellani returned to France in 1923, where he floated several new film projects but was unable to bring any to fruition. He died of diabetes in 1931. Selected filmography The Bell Ringer's Daughter (1906) Aladdin and His Wonder Lamp (1906) L'Arlésienne (1908) The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1911) Marie Tudor (1912) De Afwezige (1913) Germinal (1913) The Face in the Moonlight (1915) Camille (1915) The Foolish Virgin (1916) La Bohème (1916) The Common Law (1916) The Easiest Way (1917) Patrie (1917) Daybreak (1918) Eye for Eye (1918) The House of Mirth (1918) Out of the Fog (1919) The Red Lantern (1919) The Virtuous Model (1919) The Parisian Tigress (1919) The Love Cheat (1919) In Walked Mary (1920) Quatre-vingt-treize (1920) The Inside of the Cup (1921) The Wild Goose (1921) Sisters (1922) The Young Diana (1922) References External links 1874 births 1931 deaths French film directors French male screenwriters 20th-century French screenwriters French film producers Writers from Paris 20th-century French male writers