The Actress (1928 film)

1928 film

The Actress

1928 lobby poster

Directed by| Sidney Franklin
Written by| Albert Lewin
Richard Schayer
Joseph Farnham (intertitles)
Based on| Trelawny of the "Wells"
1898 play
by Arthur Wing Pinero
Produced by| Louis B. Mayer
Irving Thalberg
Starring| Norma Shearer
Cinematography| William H. Daniels
Edited by| Conrad A. Nervig

Production
company

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Distributed by| Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corp.[1]

Release date

* April 28, 1928 (1928-04-28) (U.S.)

Running time

| 70 minutes
Country| United States
Languages| Silent
English intertitles

The Actress is a lost 1928 American silent drama film produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film was directed by Sidney Franklin, and starred Norma Shearer.

This film was based on the 1898 play Trelawny of the "Wells" by Arthur Wing Pinero that had first premiered on Broadway in 1898, starring Mary Mannering, which was revived by Ethel Barrymore in 1911, Laurette Taylor in 1925, and at the time this film was produced (1927) by Helen Gahagan.[2] The play was first brought to the screen as a British made silent film Trelawny of the "Wells" in 1916.

This film is one of many lost MGM films dating from the 1920s.[3]

## Plot

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## Cast

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* Norma Shearer as Rose Trelawny
* Owen Moore as Tom Wrench
* Gwen Lee as Avonia
* Lee Moran as Colpoys
* Roy D'Arcy as Gadd
* Virginia Pearson as Mrs. Telfer
* William J. Humphrey as Mr. Telfer
* Effie Ellsler as Mrs. Mossop
* Ralph Forbes as Arthur Gower
* O. P. Heggie as Vice-Chancellor Sir William Gower
* Andree Tourneur as Clara de Foenix
* Cyril Chadwick as Captain de Foenix
* Margaret Seddon as Miss Trafalgar Gower

## References

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1. ^ The Actress at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
2. ^ Trelawney of the "Wells" original 1898 Broadway debut and the many revivals over the years; IBDb.com database
3. ^ The Actress at silentera.com

## External links

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Lobby card

* The Actress at IMDb
* The Actress at AllMovie
* The Actress at the TCM Movie Database
* The Actress at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
* Lantern slide for the film at the Cleveland Public Library

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* Jack and the Beanstalk (1917)
* Treasure Island (1918)
* The Safety Curtain (1918)
* Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1918)
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* The Probation Wife (1919)
* The Heart of Wetona (1919)
* The Hoodlum (1919)
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* The Primitive Lover (1922)
* East Is West (1922)
* Brass (1923)
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* Tiger Rose (1923)
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* Reunion in Vienna (1933)
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* The Dark Angel (1935)
* The Good Earth (1937)
* The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1957)

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