Quality Street
Directed bySidney Franklin
Written byAlbert Lewin
Hans Kraly
Based onQuality Street
1901 play
by J.M. Barrie
Produced byMarion Davies
Irving Thalberg
William Randolph Hearst
StarringMarion Davies
Conrad Nagel
Helen Jerome Eddy
CinematographyHendrik Sartov
Edited byBen Lewis
Production
company
Distributed byMetro Goldwyn Mayer
Release date
  • November 1, 1927 (1927-11-01)
Running time
80 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguagesSilent film
English intertitles
Budget$592,000[1]

Quality Street is a 1927 American silent romance film directed by Sidney Franklin and starring Marion Davies, Conrad Nagel and Helen Jerome Eddy. Produced by Cosmopolitan Productions for release through MGM, it was based on the 1901 play of the same name by James M. Barrie. Prints of this film are preserved at the Library of Congress and in the Turner Archive.[2][3][4]

In 2002, the film was released on DVD by the Milestone Films and Video company releasing through Image Entertainment.[5]

Quality Street publicity still, 1926

There was also a sound film version made in 1937, starring Katharine Hepburn.

Plot

Cast

Production

In her 26th film, Marion Davies starred in this romantic drama as a young woman about to be married when the man (Conrad Nagel) suddenly goes off to war. Set during the Napoleonic Wars, Davies made her last silent "costume picture." She plays both Phoebe and (years later) the invented niece Livvy. This was only the second film in which Davies played an "old and faded" woman. The other was in The Young Diana. Davies won rave reviews, but the film was not a success. It earned the lowest gross receipts of all her MGM silent films.

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See also

References

  1. ↑ Slide, Anthony. Silent Topics: Essays on Undocumented Areas of Silent Film. Scarecrow Press. p 26
  2. ↑ Quality Street at the silentera.com database
  3. ↑ Catalog of holdings, the American Film Institute collection and the United Artists collection at the Library of Congress page 147 published by The American Film Institute c.1978
  4. ↑ Quality Street, original 1901 Broadway Production upon which the 1927 film is based produced at the Knickerbocker Theatre November 11, 1901-January 1902; IBDb.com
  5. ↑ Quality Street dvd specifics, at silentera.com
  6. ↑ Lorusso, Edward (2017) The Silent Films of Marion Davies, CreateSpace, pp. 143-144.
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