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The Virgin Queen (1928 Film)
''The Virgin Queen'' is a 1928 MGM silent fictionalized film short in two-color Technicolor. It was the third short film produced as part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "Great Events" series. Plot summary Cast * Forrest Stanley as Sir Walter Ralegh * Dorothy Dwan as Bess Throckmorton - Lady-in-Waiting * Aileen Manning as Queen Elizabeth * Armand Kaliz Production The film was shot over five days at the Tec-Art Studio in Hollywood. The $21,000 budget made it one of the more "higher priced productions" in the "Great Events" series. Preservation Status No complete prints of ''The Virgin Queen'' were known to exist as of 2015, but 600 ft from the film's first reel was preserved in 2014 by the George Eastman House.Layton and Pierce 332 See also * The Virgin Queen (1955 film) ''The Virgin Queen'' is a 1955 American DeLuxe Color historical drama film directed by Henry Koster and starring Bette Davis, Richard Todd and Joan Collins. Filmed in CinemaScope, it focuses on the relations ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roy William Neill
Roy William Neill (4 September 1887 – 14 December 1946) was an Irish-born American film director best known for directing the last eleven of the fourteen Sherlock Holmes films starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, made between 1943 and 1946 and released by Universal Studios. Biography With his father as the captain, Roy William Neill was born on a ship off the coast of Ireland. His birth name was Roland de Gostrie. Neill began directing silent films in 1917 and went on to helm 111 films, 55 of them silent. Although most of Neill's films were low-budget B-movies, he was known for directing films with meticulously lit scenes with carefully layered shadows that would become the style of ''film noir'' in the late 1940s. In fact, his last film, '' Black Angel'' (1946), is considered a ''film noir''. He was also credited in some works as R. William Neill, Roy W. Neill, and Roy Neill. Neill lived in the United States for most of his career and was a US citizen. He did go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
