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The Actress
Also known as [Trelawney of the Wells]
(1928) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels / 2103 metres
Directed by Sidney Franklin

Cast: Norma Shearer [Rose Trelawny], Owen Moore [Tom Wrench], Gwen Lee [Avonia], Lee Moran [Colpoys], Roy D’Arcy [Gadd], Virginia Pearson [Mrs. Telfer], William Humphrey [Mr. Telfer], Effie Ellsler [Mrs. Mossop], Ralph Forbes [Arthur Gower], O.P. Heggie [Vice-Chancellor Sir William Gower], Andrée Tourneur [Clara de Foenix], Cyril Chadwick [Captain de Foenix], Margaret Seddon [Trafalgar Gower]

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation. / Scenario by Albert Lewin and Richard Schayer, from the play Trelawney of the Wells by Arthur Wing Pinero. Art direction by Cedric Gibbons. Costume design by Gilbert Clark. Assistant director, Hugh Boswell. Cinematography by William H. Daniels. Film editor, Conrad A. Nervig. Intertitles written by Joseph Farnham. / Released 28 April 1928. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Silent film.

Comedy-Drama.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 28 April 2009.

References: Website-IMDb.

 
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