Film

The Swan

Release year

1925

Synopsis

The Swan (1925) is a silent film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film is based on Melville Baker's 1923 Broadway play adaptation, The Swan, of Ferenc Molnar's play A Hattyu Vigjatek Harom Felvonasbarn. This film was directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki, a recent Russian immigrant working for Famous Players-Lasky. Buchowetzki had directed pictures in Russia, Sweden, and Germany. The story of this film was remade in 1930 as One Romantic Night, an early talkie for Lillian Gish, and in Technicolor as a 1956 vehicle for Grace Kelly.

Directed by

Dimitri Buchowetzki

Cast

Frances Howard
Adolphe Menjou
Ricardo Cortez
Ida Waterman
Helen Lindroth
Helen Lee Worthing

Poster artist

Eric Rohman