The Student Prince
in Old Heidelberg
Also known as The Student Prince in the United Kingdom : [Old Heidelberg] : {The Student Prince of Old Heidelberg}
(1927) United States of America
B&W : Ten reels / 2875.79 metres
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch + [John M. Stahl]
Cast: Ramon Navarro [Prince Karl Heinrich], Norma Shearer [Kathi], Jean Hersholt [Doctor Friedrich Jüttner], Gustav von Seffertitz [King Karl VII], Philipe de Lacy (Philippe de Lacy) [Prince Karl Heinrich, as boy], Edgar Norton [Lutz], Bobby Mack (Bobbie Mack) [Johann Kellermann], Edward Connelly [Prime Minister Von Haugk], Otis Harlan [old Ruder], André Mattoni [Count Asterberg], Robert Brower [a minister to the King], Edythe Chapman [young Karl’s nanny], Oliver Eckhardt [the minister], George K. Arthur [the drunk student], Lionel Belmore [the stout student], Margaret Gray [a student], John S. Peters [a student], Marshall Ruth [a student], Lincoln Stedman [a student], Leicester Wagner [a student], Ruby Lafayette
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation [An Ernst Lubitsch Production; A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture]. / Produced by Ernst Lubitsch. Scenario by Hans Kraly (Hanns Kräly), from the operetta adaptation The Student Prince by Sigmond Romberg and the play adaptation In Old Heidelberg by [?] Dorothy Donnelly? of the novel Karl Heinrich by Wilhelm Meyer-Förster. Production management by Liz Sutherland. Production assistant, Marjorie Graham. Set design by Cedric Gibbons and Richard Day + [Edgar G. Ulmer]. Costume design by Ali Hubert. Costume assistant, Eric Locke. Makeup artist, Cecil Holland. Cinematography by John Mescall (John J. Mescall). Film editor, Andrew Marton. Intertitles written by Marian Ainslee and Ruth Cummings. Original music score by William Axt and David Mendoza. / © 30 January 1928 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation [LP25374]. Premiered 21 September 1927 in New York, New York. General release, 30 January 1928. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Lahue-Gentlemen p. 174 misidentifies Shearer as Norma Talmadge. / Silent film.
Comedy-Drama: Romance.
Survival status: Print exists in the film holdings of Warner Brothers Classics [35mm positive].
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 11 December 2024.
References: Best-Those p. 56; Eames-MGM p. 36; Everson-American p. 269; Fell-History p. 119; Lahue-Gentlemen p. 174; Limbacher-Feature pp. 177, 237; McCaffrey-Guide p. 12; Vermilye-Twenties p. 104 : Website-IMDb.
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