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Lasca is a 1919 American silent Western film directed by Norman Dawn and starring Frank Mayo, Edith Roberts and Arthur Jasmine. [1] It is based on the 1882 poem Lasca by Frank Desprez . Cast
Rio Grande dance hall girl Lasca becomes involved in a love triangle between herself, her true love Miles Kincaid, and wealthy Mexican ranchero Jose Santa Cruz who wants her for his bride. Cruz kidnaps both Lasca and Kincaid and holds them hostage on his ranch on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande.
Lasca is a draughts (or checkers) variant. Lasca may also refer to: Lasca, a 1919 American silent Western; Lasca, an 1882 poem by Frank Desprez; Francesco Lasca (born 1988), Italian road bicycle racer; Lasca, Alabama, an unincorporated community in Marengo County; Lasca, Texas, a ghost town in Hudspeth County
She received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the film Michael Clayton (2007). Her early films include Sally Potter 's Orlando (1992), Susan Streitfeld ’s erotic drama Female Perversions (1996), Cameron Crowe 's Vanilla Sky (2001), and Spike Jonze 's Adaptation (2002).
Desprez' best-known work, however, is a poem, Lasca, about a Mexican girl and her cowboy sweetheart caught in a cattle stampede "in Texas down by the Rio Grande."The ballad-like poem, first published in a London magazine in 1882, has often been reprinted, usually with deletions and changes, and recited in many parts of the English-speaking world.
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