page_title: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920 Paramount film)
section_title: Production notes
hierarchical_section_title: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920 Paramount film) / Production notes
caption_attribution_description: English: Ad for the American film Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920) with John Barrymore, page 3181 of the April 10, 1920 Motion Picture News.
context_page_description: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a 1920 American silent horror film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and released through Paramount/Artcraft. The film, which stars John Barrymore, was a film adaptation of the 1886 novella The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. John S. Robertson directed the production, and Clara Beranger wrote the screenplay, based on the 1887 stage play by Thomas Russell Sullivan that in turn was based on the novel.
  The story, set in late Victorian London, portrays the tragic consequences of a doctor's experiments in separating the dual personalities he thinks define all humans: one good, the other evil. The film is now in the public domain.
context_section_description: The early part of Jekyll's initial transformation into Hyde was achieved with no makeup, instead relying solely on Barrymore's ability to contort his face and body. In one scene, as Hyde reverts to Jekyll, one of Hyde's prosthetic fingers can be seen flying across the screen, having been shaken loose by Barrymore's convulsions.
  After Nita Naldi's death in 1961, The New York Times noted in its obituary of the actress that it was John Barrymore who had "obtained a part for her in the film, 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,'" after he "spotted" her dancing at the Winter Garden Theatre in Manhattan.
caption: A 1920 lobby poster depicting the dashing and “good” Dr. Henry Jekyll
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