Queen Kelly (1929) | |
| Director(s) | Erich von Stroheim, Sam Wood, Edmund Goulding, Ryszard Bolesławski, Gregg Toland, Gloria Swanson |
| Producer(s) | Erich von Stroheim, Gloria Swanson |
| Top Genres | Drama, Romance, Silent Films |
| Top Topics | Romance (Drama) |
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Queen Kelly (1929) was a Drama - Silent Films Film directed by Ryszard Bolesławski and Gregg Toland and produced by Gloria Swanson and Erich von Stroheim.
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Queen Kelly: Norma and Max's Wild Ride
By FlickChick on Aug 30, 2013 From A Person in the DarkSome stories are so perfectly symmetrical you just have to sit back in amazement and feel that the universe is truly some magical Rubiks Cube. I am blessed to live in a location that affords me the opportunity to see silent films on the big screen with live accompaniment (usually by the there... Read full article
Queen Kelly (1929)
By Angela on May 5, 2010 From Hollywood RevueSunset Boulevard is a movie you can easily appreciate if you don’t know anything about the silent film era.? But if you do know about the silent film era, it’s chock full of little in-jokes that really add to the whole experience.? The most famous example would be the scene where Norma D... Read full article
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Queen Regina V: *I* am going to marry *HIM*!
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Facts about
Erich von Stroheim: [janitor] Wolfram returns to the palace after a night of drunken revelry and passes a cleaning person with a vacuum cleaner on his way up the palace's grand staircase.
A clip from the film appears in Sunset Blvd., where Norma Desmond (played by Gloria Swanson), a silent movie star who is planning a comeback, watches one of her former films. Erich von Stroheim plays Max Von Mayerling, Desmond's butler, who serves as projectionist for the film clip. It is later revealed that Max was the silent movie director who discovered Norma Desmond. Director Billy Wilder recalled that it was von Stroheim's idea to use the clip from _Queen Kelly_ (1932) in Sunset Blvd., as a way of "art imitating life."
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