The Swan (1925 film)

The Swan
Directed by	Dimitri Buchowetzki
Produced by	Adolph Zukor Jesse L. Lasky
Written by	Melville Baker (adaptation) Dimitri Buchowetzki (scenario)
Based on	play, The Swan, by Ferenc Molnar
Cinematography	Alvin Wyckoff
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release dates	February 16, 1925
Running time	6 reels (5,889 feet)
Country	United States
Language	Silent English intertitles

The Swan (1925) is a silent film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures.

Production background

The film is based on Melville Baker's 1923 Broadway play adaptation, The Swan, of Ferenc Molnar's play A Hattyu Vigjatek Harom Felvonasbarn.

This film was directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki, a recent Russian immigrant working for Famous Players-Lasky. Buchowetzki had directed pictures in Russia, Sweden, and Germany. The story of this film was remade in 1930 as One Romantic Night, an early talkie for Lillian Gish, and in Technicolor as a 1956 vehicle for Grace Kelly.

Cast

Frances Howard - Alexandra, The Swan
Adolphe Menjou - Albert von Kersten-Rodenfels
Ricardo Cortez - Dr. Walter, the Tutor
Ida Waterman - Princess Beatrice
Helen Lindroth - Amphirosa
Helen Lee Worthing - Wanda von Gluck
Joseph Depew - Prince George
George Walcott - Prince Arsene
Michael Visaroff - Father Hyacinth
Michael Vavitch - Colonel Wunderlich (as Mikhael Vavitch)
Nicholas Soussanin - Lutzow
Arthur Donaldson - Franz, the Court Chamberlain
General Lodijensky - Master of the Hunt
Clare Eames - Princess Dominica

Preservation status

This silent version survives and can be found on home video and DVD.^[1]^[2]

References

External links

The films of Dimitri Buchowetzki

Anita Jo (1919)
Symphonie des Todes (1921)
Der Galiläer (1921)
The Brothers Karamazov (1921)
Die letzte Stunde (1921)
Danton (1921)
The Experiment of Professor Mithrany (1921)
Sappho (1921)
Die Gräfin von Paris (1922)
Othello (1922)
Peter the Great (1922)
Das Laster des Spiels (1923)
Carousel (1923)
Men (1924)
Lily of the Dust (1924)
The Swan (1925)
Graustark (1925)
The Crown of Lies (1926)
The Midnight Sun (1926)
Valencia (1926)
Stamboul (1931)
Magie moderne (1931)
Woman in the Jungle (1931)
The Indictment (1931)
Die Nacht der Entscheidung (1931)
De Sensatie van de Toekomst (1931)
El hombre que asesinó (1932)

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