The Swan
“" A 'SWAN' IS A GIRL WHOSE 'NO' MEANS 'YES'"”
Overview
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.
Cast
Frances Howard
Alexandra, The Swan
Adolphe Menjou
Albert von Kersten-Rodenfels
Ricardo Cortez
Dr. Walter, the Tutor
Ida Waterman
Princess Beatrice
Helen Lindroth
Amphirosa
Helen Lee Worthing
Wanda von Gluck
Joseph Depew
Prince George
George Walcott
Prince Arsene
Michael Vavitch
Colonel Wunderlich (as Mikhael Vavitch)
Nicholas Soussanin
Lutzow
Arthur Donaldson
Franz, the Court Chamberlain
General Lodijensky
Master of the Hunt