A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2024 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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	Ronald Colman and May McAvoy. Photograph: Silent Era image collection.

Cast: Ronald Colman [Lord Darlington], May McAvoy [Lady Windermere], Bert Lytell [Lord Windermere], Irene Rich [Mrs. Erlynne], Edward Martindel [Lord Augustus], Carrie Daumery, Helen Dunbar, Belle Bennett, Larry Steers, Wilson Benge, Mrs. Cowper-Cowper

Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated, production; distributed by Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated [An Ernst Lubitsch Production]. / Scenario by Julian Josephson, from the play Lady Windermere’s Fan by Oscar Wilde. Art direction by Harold Grieve. Costume design by Sophie Wachner. Assistant directors, George Hippard and Ernst Laemmle. Electrical effects by H.W. Murphy. Cinematography by Charles J. Van Enger. Assistant cameraman, Willard Van Enger. Intertitles written by Maude Fulton and Eric Locke. Art titles (intertitles artwork) by Victor Vance. Presented by Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated. / Premiered 27 December 1925 at Warner Theatre in New York, New York. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Some scenes were color tinted. [?] Hake-Lubitsch p. 157 lists the release date as 26 December 1925. The play was previously filmed as Lady Windermere’s Fan (1916).

Comedy.

Survival status: Prints exist in the Museum of Modern Art film archive [35mm positive]; in the film holdings of Cohen Media Group (Raymond Rohauer collection) [35mm positive]; in the film holdings of Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum (EmGee Film Library collection) [16mm reduction positive]; and in private film collections [16mm reduction positives].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Authors: Oscar Wilde

Listing updated: 3 December 2024.

References: Bardèche-History p. 287; Bohn-Light p. 89; Drew-Speaking pp. 111, 126-127, 134, 279; Fell-History pp. 118, 119, 120; FilmYearBook-1926 pp. 34, 45; Hake-Lubitsch p. 157; Lahue-Gentlemen p. 61; Limbacher-Feature p. 134; Quirk-Colman pp. 88, 89-91; Smith-Colman pp. 31, 32, 33, 53-59, 61; Vermilye-Twenties p. 104.

Home video: DVD.