The Private Life of Helen of Troy

• María Corda: Helena
• Lewis Stone: Menelaos
• Ricardo Cortez: Paris
• George Fawcett: Eteoneus
• Alice White: Adraste
• Bill Elliott: Telemachus
• Tom O'Brien: Odysseus
• Bert sprat: Achilles
• Mario Carillo: Ajax
• Charles Puffy: Malapokitoratoreadetos
• George Kotsonaros: Hector
• Emilio Borgato: Sarpedon
• Constantine Romanoff: Aeneas
• Alice Adair: Aphrodite
• Helen Fairweather: Athena

The love life of Helen of Troy is an American silent film comedy directed by Alexander Korda from 1927 based on the novel Private Life of Helen of Troy (1925 ) by John Erskine.

Action, background, and award

In the film, the plot of the Trojan War, with its connections to Greek mythology is represented theatrically.

From the film, however, are only fragments with a duration of 29.5 minutes in the archives of the British Film Institute in the form of rolls of film with a length of around 727 feet ( about 222 meters ) of the beginning and 1757 feet ( about 536 meters) from the end of the film present, which are no longer performed in public.

In the first Oscar ceremony in 1929 Gerald C. Duffy was nominated for the Oscar awarded just this year in the category "Best Title Writing" ( "Best intertitles "). Since Duffy had died on 25 June 1928 he was the first who was posthumously nominated for an Oscar. However, the award went to Joseph Farnham, who was awarded an Oscar for his overall performance.