''Graustark'' is a 1915 American silent adventure drama film produced by the

Essanay Studios The Essanay Film Manufacturing Company was an early American motion picture studio. The studio was founded in 1907 in Chicago, and later developed an additional film lot in Niles Canyon, California. Its various stars included Francis X. Bushman, ...

. It is based on the novel ''

Graustark Graustark is a fictional country in Eastern Europe used as a setting for several novels by George Barr McCutcheon. Graustark's neighbors, which also figure in the stories, are Axphain to the north and Dawsbergen to the south. Description Gra ...

'' by

George Barr McCutcheon George Barr McCutcheon (July 26, 1866 – October 23, 1928) was an American popular novelist and playwright. His best known works include a series of novels set in Graustark, a fictional East European country, and the novel '' Brewster's Milli ...

. The film starred romantic team Francis X. Bushman and

Beverly Bayne Beverly Bayne (born Pearl Beverly Van Name; November 11, 1894 – August 18, 1982) was an American actress who appeared in silent films beginning in 1910 in Chicago, Illinois, where she worked for Essanay Studios. Early life Born in Minneapoli ...

and proved one of their most popular vehicles. Fred E. Wright directed the film. The film was remade in 1925 as

with

Norma Talmadge Norma Marie Talmadge (May 2, 1894 – December 24, 1957) was an American actress and film producer of the silent film, silent era. A major box-office draw for more than a decade, her career reached a peak in the early 1920s, when she ranked among ...

. The 1923 Fox film '' Truxton King'' with John Gilbert is based on one of the sequels.

Cast

* Francis X. Bushman as Grenfall Lorry *

as Princess Yetive * Edna Mayo as Countess Dagmar *Thomas Commerford as Uncle Caspar * Helen Dunbar as Aunt Yvonne *

Alan Roscoe Alan Roscoe (born John Albert Rascoe; August 23, 1888 – March 8, 1933) was an American film actor of the silent and early talking film eras. He appeared in more than 100 films between 1915 and 1933. Roscoe was born John Albert Rascoe ...

as Harry Anguish * Lester Cuneo as Prince Gabriel * Bryant Washburn as Prince Lorenz *Ernest Maupain as Prince Bolarez

Preservation status

Prints of ''Graustark'' are preserved in the

George Eastman House Motion Picture Collection The George Eastman Museum Motion Picture Collection in Rochester, New York comprises about 28,000 titles, including features, shorts, documentaries, newsreels, and experimental moving images. The collection is renowned for its holdings of silent f ...

and the

EYE Film Institute Netherlands Eye Filmmuseum is a film archive, museum, and cinema in Amsterdam that preserves and presents both Dutch and foreign films screened in the Netherlands. Location and history Eye Filmmuseum is located in the Overhoeks neighborhood of Amsterdam in t ...

.The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: ''Graustark''
/ref>

References

External links

* * 1915 films American silent feature films Essanay Studios films Films based on American novels American black-and-white films American adventure drama films Films set in Europe 1910s adventure drama films 1915 drama films 1910s American films Silent American drama films Silent adventure drama films 1910s English-language films {{silent-adventure-film-stub

Cast

See also

Preservation status

References

External links