Madame du Barry (1928 film)

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Madame du Barry
Directed byR. William Neill
Written byJack Cunningham
Produced byHerbert T. Kalmus
StarringPriscilla Dean
Mahlon Hamilton
CinematographyGeorge Cave
Production
companies
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
November 17, 1928[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguagesSilent
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.

Production[edit]

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

Preservation Status[edit]

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[edit]

  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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