The Swan

Release Date: 1925-02-16

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.

Rating: 6 / 10

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