The Swan

Overview

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.

Directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki

Top cast

Frances Howard

Alexandra, The Swan

Adolphe Menjou

Albert von Kersten-Rodenfels

Ricardo Cortez

Dr. Walter, the Tutor

Ida Waterman

Princess Beatrice

Helen Lindroth

Amphirosa

Helen Lee Worthing

Wanda von Gluck

Joseph Depew

Prince George

George Walcott

Prince Arsene

Michael Vavitch

Colonel Wunderlich (as Mikhael Vavitch)

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Nicholas Soussanin

Lutzow

Arthur Donaldson

Franz, the Court Chamberlain

G

General Lodijensky

Master of the Hunt

Clare Eames

Princess Dominica

Michael Visaroff

Father Hyacinth

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