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''The Lucky Lady'' is a 1926 American silent

romance film Romance films or movies involve romantic love stories recorded in visual media for broadcast in theatres or on television that focus on passion, emotion, and the affectionate romantic involvement of the main characters. Typically their journey ...

produced by

Famous Players-Lasky Famous Players-Lasky Corporation was an American motion picture and distribution company formed on June 28, 1916, from the merger of Adolph Zukor's Famous Players Film Company—originally formed by Zukor as Famous Players in Famous Plays—and ...

, distributed by Paramount Pictures, directed by Raoul Walsh, and starring

Greta Nissen Greta Nissen (born Grethe Rüzt-Nissen; 30 January 1906 – 15 May 1988) was a Norwegian-American film and stage actress. Stage and screen actress Born Grethe Rüzt-Nissen in Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway, Nissen was originally a dancer. While ...

, Lionel Barrymore, William Collier, Jr., and

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. Walsh and Barrymore and their families knew each other going back to their adolescence in the Victorian era of the 1880s and 1890s

Plot

As described in a film magazine review, this is a tale of a beauty who lavished her charms upon one man for revenge and upon another for love. It happens in a mythical kingdom where a lovely princess is chafing against the restraint of a convent. She sneaks away, meets a young American man, flirts with him, and falls in love. At the same time, she poses as an alluring

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and flirts with the wild-living nobleman whom she is supposed to marry but does not love. The prime minister, fearing for the marriage plans of the nobleman and the princess, banishes the young American and the vampire, who is really the princess. The two journey to America and live happily ever afterwards.

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Preservation

Contrary to some sources, ''The Lucky Lady'' is not a

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. A print survives in the

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.The Library of Congress American Silent Film Survival Catalog: ''The Lucky Lady''
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1926 films American silent feature films American black-and-white films Films directed by Raoul Walsh Paramount Pictures films Famous Players-Lasky films 1920s romance films American romance films 1920s American films {{1920s-romance-film-stub

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