''Confetti'' is a 1927 British silent

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directed by

Graham Cutts John Henry Graham Cutts (1884 – 7 February 1958), known as Graham Cutts, was a British film director, one of the leading British directors in the 1920s. His fellow director A. V. Bramble believed that Gainsborough Pictures had been built o ...

and starring

Jack Buchanan Walter John Buchanan (2 April 1891 – 20 October 1957) was a Scottish theatre and film actor, singer, dancer, producer and director. He was known for three decades as the embodiment of the debonair man-about-town in the tradition of George G ...

Annette Benson Annette Benson (1895–1965) was a British film actress. She was a leading lady of British silent films of the 1920s, appearing in ''Confetti'' with Jack Buchanan and ''Downhill'' with Ivor Novello. She also featured in several French and German ...

and

Sydney Fairbrother Sydney Fairbrother (31 July 1872 – 4 January 1941) was a British actress. Born Sydney Tapping on 31 July 1872 in London to actor/playwright Alfred B. Tapping and actress Florence Cowell, she was educated at Blackpool and Bonn. She made her sta ...

. It had its

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in December 1927.Low p.187 The film was shot at

Gainsborough Pictures Gainsborough Pictures was a British film studio based on the south bank of the Regent's Canal, in Poole Street, Hoxton in the former Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch, north London. Gainsborough Studios was active between 1924 and 1951. The com ...

Islington Islington () is a district in the north of Greater London, England, and part of the London Borough of Islington. It is a mainly residential district of Inner London, extending from Islington's High Street to Highbury Fields, encompassing the ar ...

studios.

Cast

as Count Andrea Zorro *

as Dolores *

as Duchess Maxine *

Robin Irvine Robin Irvine (21 December 1901, in Stoke Newington, London, England – 28 April 1933, in Bermuda) was a British film actor. He was married to actress Ursula Jeans from 1931 until his death from pleurisy aged 31. Filmography * '' The Secret King ...

as Carlo * Andrée Sacré as Roxanne * Georges Térof as Confetti Manufacturer

References

Bibliography

* Rachel Low, ''The History of British Film: Volume IV, 1918–1929'' (Routledge, 1997)

External links

* 1927 films 1927 drama films Films directed by Graham Cutts British silent feature films Islington Studios films Films set in Nice British black-and-white films Films shot at British International Pictures Studios 1920s English-language films 1920s British films Silent British drama films {{1920s-UK-film-stub