The Swan
About The Swan
Frances Howard plays a princess in a palace comedy drawn from Ferenc Molnár. Adolphe Menjou is the prince her family wants for her. Ricardo Cortez is the tutor brought in for the children, and the princess's interest turns toward him while the prince plays the match as a bore.
Cast & crew
More about The Swan
Dimitri Buchowetzki directed. Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky produced. Alvin Wyckoff photographed. Paramount released it on 16 February 1925. Six reels, 5,889 feet. IMDb lists 85 minutes and a U.S. and Canada gross of $174,429. It comes from Melville Baker's 1923 Broadway version of Molnár's A Hattyú. Clare Eames plays Princess Dominica. Ida Waterman, Helen Lindroth, and Helen Lee Worthing are also billed. The story was filmed again as One Romantic Night (1930) with Lillian Gish and in 1956 with Grace Kelly.
Themes
Making
Paramount hired a newly arrived Russian director to film an American stage version of a Hungarian comedy.
Audiences
IMDb lists U.S. and Canada gross of $174,429.
Look
Alvin Wyckoff photographed the palace rooms and the tutor's scenes.
Preservation
A print survives and is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- Buchowetzki had directed in Russia, Sweden, and Germany before this Famous Players picture.
- IMDb's trivia note says it is Michael Visaroff's first film.
- A circulating copy runs 1 hour 25 minutes.
Scenes
- The tutor is installed among the children, and the princess's interest shifts toward him.
- Menjou plays the prince the family is trying to land.
Influenced by
- The Swan (play)
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (The Swan (1925).webm)
