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Gloria Swanson.
Photograph: Silent Era image collection.
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Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife
Also known as [Bluebeard’s 8th Wife]
(1923) United States of America
B&W : Six reels / 5960 feet
Directed by Sam Wood
Cast: Gloria Swanson [Mona de Briac], Huntley Gordon [John Brandon], Charles Greene [Robert], Lianne Salvor [Lucienne], Paul Weigel [Marquis de Briac], Frank Butler [Lord Henry Seville], Robert Agnew [Albert de Marceau], Irene Dalton [Alice George], Majel Coleman, Thais Valdemar
Famous Players-Lasky Corporation production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation [A Sam Wood Production; A Paramount Picture]. / Scenario by Sada Cowan, from the play adaptation Bluebeard’s 8th Wife by [?] Charlton Andrews? of the novel La huitième femme de Barbe Bleue by Alfred Savoir. Wax sculptures by Milba K. Lloyd. Hairdressing by Hattie Tabourne. Cinematography by Alfred Gilks. Presented by Jesse L. Lasky. / © 26 June 1923 by Famous Players-Lasky Corporation [LP19167]. Premiered 5 August 1923 in New York, New York. Released September 1923. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy: Romance.
Survival status: The film is presumed lost.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 12 January 2024.
References: Hudson-Swanson pp. 161, 162, 163; Quirk-Swanson pp. 35, 143-147 : Website-AFI.
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