The Seven Swans
Appearance
The Seven Swans | |
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Directed by | J. Searle Dawley |
Written by | J. Searle Dawley |
Based on | The Wild Swans by Hans Christian Andersen |
Produced by | Adolph Zukor |
Starring | Marguerite Clark Richard Barthelmess |
Cinematography | H. Lyman Broening |
Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
Release date | December 31, 1917 |
Country | USA |
Language | Silent film..(English intertitles) |
The Seven Swans is a lost[1] 1917 silent film fantasy starring Marguerite Clark. Famous Players Film Company produced and J. Searle Dawley directed.[2]
Plot
Loosely based on The Wild Swans by Hans Christian Andersen, Clark stars as Princess Tweedledee who later falls in love with Prince Charming. An evil witch, yearning to take over a kingdom, turns the Princess's brothers into swans. Moon Fairies vow to turn her brothers back to humans if she knits them seven robes and not speak to another human for a specified amount of time.
Cast
- Marguerite Clark - Princess Tweedledee
- William E. Danforth - The King
- Augusta Anderson - The Wicked Queen
- Edwin Denison - The Lord High Chancellor
- Daisy Belmore - The Witch
- Richard Barthelmess - Prince Charming
- Richard Allen - Princess Tweedeldee's Brother
- Jere Austin - Tweedeldee's Brother
- Joseph Sterling - Tweedeldee's Brother
- Frederick Merrick - Tweedeldee's Brother
- Lee F. Daly - Tweedeldee's Brother
- Stanley King - Tweedeldee's Brother
- Gordon Dana - Tweedeldee's Brother
References
External links
- The Seven Swans at IMDb.com
- AllMovie.com
- movie herald(archived)
- stills(archived)
Categories:
- 1917 films
- American silent feature films
- Films based on works by Hans Christian Andersen
- Films directed by J. Searle Dawley
- Paramount Pictures films
- Lost American films
- American black-and-white films
- Silent American fantasy films
- 1910s fantasy films
- 1917 lost films
- Lost fantasy films
- Films based on fairy tales
- Works based on The Wild Swans
- 1910s American films
- 1910s English-language films
- Films about swans
- Fantasy film stubs
- 1910s American film stubs