Dudley Murphy

Dudley Bowles Murphy July 10 1897 February 22 1968 was an American film director In his first short film Soul of the Cypress 1921 a variation on the Orpheus myth the films protagonist falls in love with a dryad a wood nymph whose soul dwells in an ancient tree and throws himself into the sea to become immortal and spend eternity with her Murphys thenwife Chase Harringdine played the dryad Murphy followed this with Danse Macabre 1922 featuring Adolph Bolm Olin Howland and Ruth Page Description above from the Wikipedia article Dudley Murphy licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia