The Virgin Queen (1928 film)

The Virgin Queen
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Directed by	R. William Neill
Written by	Leon Abrams
Produced by	Herbert T. Kalmus
Starring	Forrest Stanley Dorothy Dwan Aileen Manning Armand Kaliz
Cinematography	George Cave
Production companies	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Technicolor Corporation
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date	May 12, 1928 (1928-05-12)
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)
Budget	$21,245.43 [1]

The Virgin Queen is a 1928 American silent short drama film directed by R. William Neill. Released in two-color Technicolor, it was the third short film produced as part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "Great Events" series.

Cast

• Forrest Stanley as Sir Walter Ralegh
• Dorothy Dwan as Bess Throckmorton - Lady-in-Waiting
• Aileen Manning as Queen Elizabeth
• Armand Kaliz

Production

The film was shot over five days at the Tec-Art Studio in Hollywood. ^[2] The $21,000 budget made it one of the more "higher priced productions" in the "Great Events" series. ^[3]

Preservation Status

No complete prints of The Virgin Queen were known to exist as of 2015, but 600 ft from the film's first reel was preserved in 2014 by the George Eastman House. ^[4]

See also

• The Virgin Queen , film from 1955

References

1. Layton, James and David Pierce. The Dawn of Technicolor: 1915-1935. George Eastman House, 2015, p. 333.
2. Layton and Pierce 333
3. Slide, Anthony. "The 'Great Events' Series". Silent Topics: Essays on Undocumented Areas of Silent Film. Scarecrow Press, 2005, p. 38.
4. Layton and Pierce 332

External links

• The Virgin Queen at IMDb