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By Betsy J. Green
A movie magazine reported that members of the Vitagraph Company were filming the silent movie “The Lorelei Madonna” here.
This film takes place in a mission and in Tahiti. – Moving Picture World, April 24, 1915
(Albert E. Smith, one of the studio’s founders, had relatives in Santa Barbara.)
Betsy’s Way Back When book — Movies & Million-Dollar Mansions — is now available in local bookstores and at Amazon.com. This is the seventh book in her series on the history of Santa Barbara. Learn more at .
