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The Virgin Queen (1928 film)

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The Virgin Queen
Directed byR. William Neill
Written byLeon Abrams
Produced byHerbert T. Kalmus
StarringForrest Stanley
Dorothy Dwan
Aileen Manning
Armand Kaliz
CinematographyGeorge Cave
Production
companies
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
May 12, 1928
CountryUnited States
LanguagesSilent
English Intertitles
Budget$21,245.43[1]

The Virgin Queen is a 1928 MGM silent fictionalized film short in two-color Technicolor. It was the third short film produced as part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "Great Events" series.

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

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


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