The Actress (1928)
1h 10m
Running Time
April 27, 1928
Release Date
The Actress (1928)
1h 10m
Running Time
April 27, 1928
Release Date
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Plot.
A theatrical troupe from the west end of London loses its leading lady when she goes off to marry a rich young man from the other side of town. The rest of the play deals with the budding romance and trials and tribulations of their love, as well as the changing face of late-19th-century theatre.
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Cast & Crew.
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
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This Movie Is About.
based on play or musical
lost film
Wiki.
The Actress is a lost 1928 American silent drama film produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film was directed by Sidney Franklin, and starred Norma Shearer.
This film was based on the 1898 play Trelawny of the "Wells" by Arthur Wing Pinero that had first premiered on Broadway in 1898, starring Mary Mannering, which was revived by Ethel Barrymore in 1911, Laurette Taylor in 1925, and at the time this film was produced (1927) by Helen Gahagan. The play was first brought to the screen as a British made silent film Trelawny of the "Wells" in 1916.
This film is one of many lost MGM films dating from the 1920s.