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Beverly of Graustark
(1926) United States of America
Color/B&W : Seven reels / [?] 6627, 6710 or 6977? feet
Directed by Sidney Franklin
Cast: Marion Davies [Beverly Calhoun], Antonio Moreno [Dantan], Creighton Hale [Prince Oscar], Roy D’Arcy [General Marlanax], Albert Gran [Duke Travina], Paulette Duval [Carlotta], Max Barwyn [Saranoff], Charles Clary [Mr. Calhoun]; Percy Williams [?] [the Calhoun butler]?, Sidney Bracy [Marlanax’s valet], Lou Duello [a dancer], Edward Scarpa [a peasant]
Cosmopolitan Productions production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation [A Cosmopolitan Production]. / Produced by Irving Thalberg. Scenario by Agnes Christine Johnston, from the novel Beverly of Graustark by George Barr McCutcheon. Settings (production design) by Cedric Gibbons and Richard Day. Wardrobe (costume design) by Kathleen Key & Maude Marsh and André-ani. Assistant director, H.B. Boswell. Photography (cinematography) by Percy Hilburn. Film editor, Frank Hull (Frank E. Hull). Titles (intertitles written) by Joe Farnham (Joseph Farnham). Presented by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. / © 5 April 1926 by Cosmopolitan Productions [LP22562]. Released 22 March 1926. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. Technicolor [process two] two-strip color process sequence. / MGM production number 253. MGM release number 612. The final sequence was presented in Technicolor. This production was the most profitable of all Davies’ films. The novel was previously filmed as Beverly of Graustark (1914).
Comedy-Drama.
Survival status: Prints exist in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists film archive, and in the Library of Congress film archive (Marion Davies collection) [35mm nitrate positive (with Technicolor sequence)].
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Color cinematography - Imposters - Royalty: Kings, Princes
Listing updated: 15 May 2023.
References: Film credits, film viewing : Davies-Times p. 246; Eames-MGM p. 32; Lahue-Gentlemen pp. 160, 163 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.
Home video: Blu-ray Disc, DVD.
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