The Swan
movie
" A 'SWAN' IS A GIRL WHOSE 'NO' MEANS 'YES'"
Released February 16, 1925
Overview
The Swan (1925) is a silent film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. 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
as
Alexandra, The Swan
Adolphe Menjou
as
Albert von Kersten-Rodenfels
Ricardo Cortez
as
Dr. Walter, the Tutor
Ida Waterman
as
Princess Beatrice
Helen Lindroth
as
Amphirosa
Helen Lee Worthing
as
Wanda von Gluck
Joseph Depew
as
Prince George
George Walcott
as
Prince Arsene
Michael Vavitch
as
Colonel Wunderlich (as Mikhael Vavitch)
Nicholas Soussanin
as
Lutzow
Arthur Donaldson
as
Franz, the Court Chamberlain
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General Lodijensky
as
Master of the Hunt
