The Actress | |
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Directed by | Sidney Franklin |
Written by | Albert Lewin Richard Schayer Joseph Farnham (intertitles) |
Based on | Trelawny of the "Wells" 1898 play by Arthur Wing Pinero |
Produced by | Louis B. Mayer Irving Thalberg |
Starring | Norma Shearer |
Cinematography | William H. Daniels |
Edited by | Conrad A. Nervig |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corp. [1] |
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Running time | 70 minutes |
Country | United States |
Languages | Silent English intertitles |
The Actress is a lost 1928 American silent drama film produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film was directed by Sidney Franklin, and starred Norma Shearer.
This film was based on the 1898 play Trelawny of the "Wells" by Arthur Wing Pinero that had first premiered on Broadway in 1898, starring Mary Mannering, which was revived by Ethel Barrymore in 1911, Laurette Taylor in 1925, and at the time this film was produced (1927) by Helen Gahagan. [2] The play was first brought to the screen as a British made silent film Trelawny of the "Wells" in 1916.
This film is one of many lost MGM films dating from the 1920s. [3]
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