The Woman God Forgot

The Woman God Forgot is a 1917 American silent romance film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Geraldine Farrar. Art direction for the film was done by Wilfred Buckland.

Location shooting for the film took place in Santa Monica, California and Yosemite National Park.

Plot
The Exhibitors Herald, a trade magazine for independent cinemas, provides a description of the film. Moctezuma (Hatton), the Aztec king, resents the intrusion of the Spanish who have come to convert the Aztecs to Christianity. But Tecza (Farrar), daughter of the king, loves Alvarado (Reid), one of the Spanish captains, and she allows the Spanish soldiers to enter the palace. After a terrific battle, she is the only surviving Aztec and the Spanish allow her to depart in peace. Alvarado then comes wooing the last of the Aztecs and wins her.

Cast

 * Wallace Reid as Alvarado
 * Raymond Hatton as Moctezuma
 * Hobart Bosworth as Cortez
 * Theodore Kosloff as Guatemoco
 * Walter Long as Taloc (High Priest)
 * Julia Faye as Tecza's handmaiden
 * Olga Grey as Aztec woman
 * Geraldine Farrar as Tecza (daughter of Moctezuma)
 * Charley Rogers as Cacamo (as Charles Rogers)
 * Ramon Novarro as Aztec man (uncredited)
 * Louis Weinberg a.k.a. David Marvel as Indian Prince (vaudeville dancer)

Reception
A staff writer for The New York Times referred to the film as "a colorful and magnificently mounted romance"; however, they believed its plot was "somewhat primitive".

Preservation
Complete 35 mm prints of The Woman God Forgot are held by the George Eastman Museum and the Cineteca Del Friuli in Gemona.