Rex Ingram: Part II
Rex Ingram with off-screen girlfriend Rosita Garcia in Baroud
Rex Ingram Part I
Without MGM’s financial and distribution support, Ingram managed to direct only two more films: The Three Passions (1928), released in the U.S. via United Artists, and his only talkie, the somewhat amateurish adventure tale Baroud (1931), starring Novarro look-alike Pierre Batcheff (who would commit suicide a couple of years later) and Ingram himself as a dashing legionnaire in North Africa. Baroud got few bookings.
With his film career over, Ingram spent much of his time reading and studying Islam. (He had become fascinated with Arab culture while filming The Arab in Tunisia in the mid-1920s.) According to several reports, he became a Muslim in the early 1930s, though the free-thinking [...]
by Andre Soares | January 16, 2006
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