Prunella (1918 film)

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Prunella

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Directed by Maurice Tourneur
Produced by Adolph Zukor
Jesse Lasky
Written by Charles Maigne
Based on Prunella, or, Love in a Dutch Garden 
by Granville Barker and Laurence Housman
Starring Marguerite Clark
Cinematography John van den Broek
Distributed by Famous Players-Lasky
Release dates June 2, 1918
Running time 50 mins.
Country United States
Language Silent
English intertitles

Prunella is a 1918 American silent romantic fantasy film directed by Maurice Tourneur. The film is based on the 1906 play Prunella, or, Love in a Dutch Garden, by Laurence Housman and Harley Granville-Barker, and stars Marguerite Clark in the title role. Clark also starred in the 1913 Winthrop Ames produced Broadway stage production on which the film is based.[1] The majority of the film is considered lost, with only fragments still in existence.[2]

Cast

  • Marguerite Clark - Prunella
  • Isabel Berwin - Prim
  • Nora Cecil - Privacy
  • William J. Gross -
  • Marcia Harris - Prude
  • Charles Hartley - The Gardener
  • Arthur Kennedy - The Gardener's Boy
  • Henry Leoni - Scaramel
  • Jules Raucourt - Pierrot
  • A. Voorhees Wood - The Gardener

References

  1. Waldman, Harry (2008). Maurice Tourneur: The Life and Films. McFarland. pp. 75–76. ISBN 0-786-44085-6. 
  2. Neale, Steve, ed. (2012). Classical Hollywood Reader. Routledge. p. 65. ISBN 1-135-72007-X. 

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