''One Romantic Night'' is a 1930 American
pre-Code
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romantic comedy
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film directed by
Paul L. Stein
Paul Ludwig Stein (4 February 1892 – 2 May 1951) was an Austrian-born film director with 67 films to his credit. Stein began his career in Berlin in 1918 and worked exclusively in the German silent film industry until 1926, when he first w ...
. It is the first sound film version of
Ferenc Molnár
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's play ''The Swan'', and marked silent screen star
Lillian Gish's talkie debut. She starred as Princess Alexandra, with
Conrad Nagel
John Conrad Nagel (March 16, 1897 – February 24, 1970) was an American film, stage, television and radio actor. He was considered a famous matinée idol and leading man of the 1920s and 1930s. He was given an Academy Honorary Award in 1940 and ...
as the tutor who falls in love with her, and
Rod La Rocque as Crown Prince Albert. The film was only fairly successful, though Gish would go on to become as highly regarded in talking pictures as she had been in silent films.
A
silent version of the play had been produced in 1925 at
Paramount Pictures
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. The 1956
Eastmancolor
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Eastmancolor, introduced in 1950, was on ...
film version of ''
The Swan
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Swan, swans, or The Swan may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media Film and television
* ''The Swan'' (1925 film), a 1925 silent film
* ''The Swa ...
'', the only one of the three film versions made in color, is much more frequently shown today.
Cast
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Lillian Gish as Princess Alexandra
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Rod La Rocque as Prince Albert
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Conrad Nagel
John Conrad Nagel (March 16, 1897 – February 24, 1970) was an American film, stage, television and radio actor. He was considered a famous matinée idol and leading man of the 1920s and 1930s. He was given an Academy Honorary Award in 1940 and ...
as Dr Nicholas Haller
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Marie Dressler
Marie Dressler (born Leila Marie Koerber, November 9, 1868 – July 28, 1934) was a Canadian stage and screen actress, comedian, and early silent film and Depression-era film star. In 1914, she was in the first full-length film comedy. She ...
as Princess Beatrice
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O.P. Heggie
Oliver Peters Heggie ( Otto Peters Heggie;
17 September 1877 – 7 February 1936), billed as O. P. Heggie, was an Australian film and theatre actor best known for portraying the hermit who befriends the Monster in the film ''Bride of Frankenstei ...
as Father Benedict
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Albert Conti
Albert De Conti Cadassamare (29 January 1887 – 18 January 1967), professionally billed as Albert Conti, was an Austrian-Hungarian-born Italian-American film actor.
Life
Born in the village of Gorizia (now, part of Italy), Conti achieved mode ...
as Count Lutzen
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Edgar Norton
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Early years
Norton was born in Islington in London, England, on August 11, 1868, as Harry Edgar Mills, one of eight childr ...
as Colonel Wunderlich
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Billie Bennett
Billie Bennett (October 23, 1874 – May 19, 1951) was an American film actress of the silent era. She appeared in more than 50 films between 1913 and 1930. She was born in Evansville, Indiana, and died in Los Angeles, California.
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as Princess Symphorosa
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Philippe De Lacy
Philippe De Lacy (July 25, 1917 – July 29, 1995) was a French-American silent film era child actor who became a film producer, director, and cinematographer in adulthood.
Early life
Born during World War I, the already fatherless Philippe los ...
as Prince George
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Byron Sage as Prince Arsene
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Barbara Leonard as Mitzi
See also
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Lillian Gish filmography
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These are the films of Lillian Gish.
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