Madame du Barry (1928 film)

Madame du Barry
Madame du Barry
Directed by	R. William Neill
Written by	Jack Cunningham
Screenplay by	Jack Cunningham
Produced by	Herbert T. Kalmus
Starring	Priscilla Dean; Mahlon Hamilton
Cinematography	George Cave
Edited by	Natalie Kalmus
Production; companies	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; Technicolor Corporation
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date	November 17, 1928;
Country	United States
Languages	Silent; English Intertitles

Madame du Barry is a 1928 MGM short silent fictionalized film short in two-color Technicolor. It was the eighth film produced as part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "Great Events" series, and the last to be released before the new year.

Plot

Cast

Priscilla Dean as Madame DuBarry
Mahlon Hamilton as Louis XV
George Davis
Denis Auburn
Bill Elliott (as Gordon Elliott)
David Mir
Charles Thurston

Production

The film was shot at the Tec-Art Studio in Hollywood.^[2]

Preservation Status

Madame du Barry has not survived in its original two-reel form. 800 feet of 35mm material from the second reel has been preserved by the Library of Congress in Washington, DC.^[3]

References

^ Layton, James and David Pierce. The Dawn of Technicolor: 1915-1935. George Eastman House, 2015, p. 339.
^ Slide, Anthony. "The 'Great Events' Series". Silent Topics: Essays on Undocumented Areas of Silent Film. Scarecrow Press, 2005, p. 38.
^ Layton and Pierce 339

External links

Madame du Barry at IMDb

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[1] Layton, James and David Pierce. The Dawn of Technicolor: 1915-1935. George Eastman House, 2015, p. 339.

[2] Slide, Anthony. "The 'Great Events' Series". Silent Topics: Essays on Undocumented Areas of Silent Film. Scarecrow Press, 2005, p. 38.

[3] Layton and Pierce 339

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