Madame Sans-Gêne (1925 film)

Madame Sans-Gêne

1925 Swedish theatrical poster
Directed by Léonce Perret
Produced by Jesse L. Lasky
Adolph Zukor
Screenplay by Forrest Stanley
Based on Madame Sans-Gêne 
by Victorien Sardou
Emile Moreau
Starring Gloria Swanson
Émile Drain
Charles de Rochefort
Music by Hugo Riesenfeld
Cinematography Raymond Agnel
Jacques Bizeul
René Guissart
J. Peverell Marley
George Webber
Production
company
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release dates
  • April 20, 1925 (United States)
  • December 15, 1925 (France)
Running time
100 minutes
Country United States
Language Silent
English intertitles

Madame Sans-Gêne was a 1925 American silent romantic costume comedy-drama film directed by Léonce Perret and starring Gloria Swanson. Based on the play of the same name by Victorien Sardou and Emile Moreau, the film is now considered lost.[1][2]

Production background

The film was produced and filmed in France, as Swanson was on extended vacation there. She soon became involved with Henri de la Falaise, hired by Paramount to be her translator, and who later became her third husband.[3]

Cast

See also

References

  1. Waldman, Harry (1994). Beyond Hollywood's grasp: American filmmakers abroad, 1914-1945. Scarecrow Press. p. 109. ISBN 0-810-82841-3.
  2. Staggs, Sam (2003). Close-up on Sunset Boulevard: Billy Wilder, Norma Desmond, and the Dark Hollywood Dream. Macmillan. p. 55. ISBN 1-466-83046-8.
  3. Waldman 1994 pp.110-111

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