The Divine Sinner (1928)





At the end of the First World War, Lillia Ludwig, an Austrian girl, goes to Paris in search of work to support her impoverished parents and blind brother. She finds a job as a designer, but her association with a forger leads to her arrest. Lillia's captors are trying to discredit Prince Josef Miguel, the heir to the throne of an unnamed kingdom. The police agree to release Lillia on the condition that she involves the Prince in a scandal. Lillia goes along with the plan, but after a few weeks, she falls in love with the royal figure. When his father dies, Josef Miguel renounces the throne to marry Lillia.


The scenes of this story are laid in Austria at the close of the war. The illustrious family of Ludwig is impoverished and the only daughter must work. The picture rather convincingly proves that good may come out of evil, or that there are extenuating circumstances when a girl sins to buy necessities for her family. It's a dangerous theory, but a rather enjoyable picture, due to the presence of Vera Reynolds as Lillia, around whom the sympathy is woven.

Photoplay October 1928



Vintage magazines

Photoplay , October 1928
Photoplay , October 1928

Books with substantial mentioning of The Divine Sinner

Frederick W. Ott
The Films of Carole Lombard
Secaucus, NJ, 1974


Year: 1928
Country: United States
 
IMDb: 0018835