Dream of Love

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Dream of Love
Directed by Fred Niblo
Written by Play:
Ernest Legouve
Eugène Scribe
Adaptation:
Dorothy Farnum
Titles:
Marion Ainslee
Ruth Cummings
Starring Joan Crawford
Nils Asther
Aileen Pringle
Warner Oland
Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date(s) December 1, 1928
Running time 65 min.
Country Flag of the United States United States
Language English
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Dream of Love is a 1928 MGM silent film, directed by Fred Niblo, and starring Joan Crawford and Nils Asther. The film is based on the play "Adrienne Lecouvreur" by Eugène Scribe and Ernest Legouve. In the film, Asther plays Prince Maurice de Saxe and Crawford plays Adrienne Lecouvreur, a Gypsy performer, in a tale of lost love and revenge.

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Adrienne, a Gypsy girl performing in a traveling carnival, is unable to find true love for herself until she makes the acquaintance of Prince Maurice. They fall in love, but must part when, for diplomatic reasons, the prince is called upon to make love to the rich wife of an influential duke. Adrienne later becomes a popular stage actress and again meets the prince. Coincidentally, she's appearing in a play which resembles the sad story of her earlier relationship with the prince. Maurice is struggling to win his throne from a usurping dictator. With Adrienne's help, he dodges an assassination attempt and becomes king.

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