magic and the surreal. David Lean said he was indebted to Ingram. MGM studio chief Dore Schary listed the top creative people in Hollywood as D. W. Griffith, Ingram, Cecil B. DeMille and Erich von Stroheim (in declining order of importance). Carlos Clarens writes: "As Rex Ingram's films became more esoteric, his career declined. The coming of sound forced him to relinquish his studios in Nice. Rather than equip them for talking pictures, he chose instead to travel and pursue a writing career." Ingram made only one talkie, Baroud, filmed for Gaumont British Pictures in Morocco. The film was not a commercial success; he then left the movie business, returning to Los Angeles to work as a sculptor and writer. Interested in Islam as early as 1927, he converted to the faith in 1933. For his contribution to the motion picture industry, he has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1651 Vine Street. Death Ingram died of a cerebral hemorrhage in North Hollywood on 21 July 1950, aged 58. He was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. Legacy Critic Carlos Clarens wrote of Ingram: "A full-blown Irishman fascinated by the bizarre and the grotesque (he once employed a dwarf as a valet), Ingram was also a writer of some talent. Frequently pedestrian and pretentious, Ingram's films nevertheless contain splendid flashes of macabre fantasy, such as the ride of the Four Horsemen in the Valentino epic, or the 'ghoul visions' that bring about the death of the miser in The Conquering Power. His more or less mystical bent was apparent in Mare Nostrum and The Garden of Allah, which he filmed in the Mediterranean and North Africa, respectively." Filmography Ingram's complete filmography as a director: The Symphony of Souls (1-reel short subject; 1914) The Song of Hate (1915) *scenario The Great Problem (1916) Broken Fetters (1916) The Chalice of Sorrow (1916) Black Orchids (1917) The Little Terror (1917) The Reward of the Faithless (1917) The Pulse of Life (1917) The Flower of Doom (1917) His Robe of Honor (1918) Humdrum Brown (1918) The Day She Paid (1919) Shore Acres (1920) Under Crimson Skies (1920) Hearts Are Trumps (1920) The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921) The Conquering Power (1921) The Prisoner of Zenda (1922) Trifling Women (1922) Turn to the Right (1922) Scaramouche (1923) Where the Pavement Ends (1923) The Arab (1924) Mare