The Sleep of Cyma Roget
Cast & Crew
Charles L. Gaskill
Helen Gardner
Templer Saxe
Marc Connelly
Peggy O'neil
C. D. Williams
Film Details
Synopsis
Cyma Roget, a beautiful young woman, has fallen under the influence of the evil Hindu scientist Chandra Dak, who can cast her at will into a hypnotic state resembling death. Chandra Dak's power over Cyma wanes as his love for her grows, however, and one night she escapes and takes refuge in the atelier of three young and struggling Bohemian artists. During her stay at the atelier, she becomes an artist's model and forms an attachment to one of the artists, Paul Bridere, but soon Chandra Dak falls out of love with Cyma and sends her into a hypnotic coma. To all appearances dead, Cyma is interred in a vault, but Chandra Dak's death ends her coma, and she is rescued from the vault and restored to the arms of Paul.
Cast
Helen Gardner
Templer Saxe
Marc Connelly
Peggy O'neil
C. D. Williams
Lejaren à Hiller
Albert Tovell
Jenkyns Dolive
Miss Leli Lanier
Mrs. Harry Davenport
Countess Olga Treskoff
William Anker
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The title of this film is sometimes given as The Sleep of Cymba Roget. After its initial release, the film was acquired by Clark-Cornelius Corp. and re-released through the state rights market, with a more vigorous publicity campaign, in late 1920 (probably in October or Nov) as The Devil's Angel. Although some sources imply that Hiller directed the film and that Gaskill merely wrote it, Gaskill, who was married to actress Helen Gardner, was more likely the director and Hiller the supervisor. Hiller's name appears in at least six spelling variations in the contemporary trade journals; Lejaren à Hiller is the most likely spelling, although the name of his son, a noted composer and scientist, was usually listed as Lejaren A. Hiller, Jr. Peggy O'Neil, whose name also appears in trade journals as O'Neal and O'Neill, was a real-life artist's model. The film is listed under the title The Devil's Angel in the AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1921-30; F2.1317.
