The Love of Sunya (1927) on Netflix
Sunya Ashling, a singing student, weighs European opera, journeying to South America with her fiancé Paul, and a marriage that would save her father from ruin. A gypsy grants her visions.
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Plot summary
In ancient Egypt, a priest drove a maiden to her death. To free himself, he must find her and help her, and she now lives as Sunya Ashling, a young American singing student. She is torn between three roads. One is a career in European opera. Another is going to South America with her fiancé, Paul Judson. The third is a marriage to wealthy Robert Goring that would save her father from financial ruin. The priest has come back as a gypsy vagabond, who grants Sunya visions of the future life that each of the three roads would bring her.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Love of Sunya (1927)
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- The failure of The Love of Sunya led producer Joseph M. Schenck to persuade Gloria Swanson to come back to Hollywood and make something more commercial; she agreed but instead filmed the more controversial Sadie Thompson (1928), which became her most successful independent production.
- Production of The Love of Sunya began in September 1926 and trouble quickly followed from Gloria Swanson's inexperience as a producer: it ran over budget, and no suitable cameraman could be found for its intricate double exposures. Cinematographer George Barnes was eventually hired, but received no screen credit.
- The Love of Sunya was Gloria Swanson's first independent production, and the star later called it an "agonizing ordeal".
- Gloria Swanson ignored advice to shoot The Love of Sunya in Hollywood and instead rented space in William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan Studios in New York City.
