The Swan

The Swan

85 mins | Comedy, Romance | Feb. 16, 1925

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.

The Swan

85 mins | Comedy, Romance | Feb. 16, 1925

The Swan
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.
Producers Famous Players-Lasky Corporation
Original title The Swan
Directors Dimitri Buchowetzki
Writers Lenore J. Coffee, Ferenc Molnár

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

Helen Lee Worthing

as Wanda von Gluck

Joseph Depew

as Prince George

George Walcott

as Prince Arsene

Michael Vavitch

as Colonel Wunderlich (as Mikhael Vavitch)

Nicholas Soussanin

as Lutzow

Arthur Donaldson

as Franz, the Court Chamberlain

General Lodijensky

as Master of the Hunt

Clare Eames

as Princess Dominica

Michael Visaroff

as Father Hyacinth