Irene (1926 film)

Irene
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Directed by	Alfred E. Green
Produced by	John McCormick
Written by	James Montgomery (play) June Mathis Rex Taylor George Marion, Jr. (titles)
Starring	Colleen Moore Lloyd Hughes George K. Arthur
Music by	Harry Tierney Joseph McCarthy
Cinematography	Ted D. McCord
Edited by	Edwin Robbins
Distributed by	First National Pictures
Release dates	February 21, 1926 (US)
Running time	90 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent English intertitles

Irene (1926) is a silent romantic comedy film starring Colleen Moore, and partially shot in Technicolor. The film was directed by Alfred E. Green, produced by Moore's husband John McCormick (1893-1961), and based on the musical Irene written by James Montgomery, Harry Tierney, and Joseph McCarthy.

As reported in the book and documentary film The Celluloid Closet, actor George K. Arthur plays a flamboyant gay man in the film named "Madame Lucy".^[1]

Cast

Colleen Moore as Irene O'Dare
Lloyd Hughes as Donald Marshall
George K. Arthur as Madame Lucy
Maryon Aye as Helen Cheston
Ida Darling as Mrs. Warren Marshall
Edward Earle as Larry Hadley
Bess Flowers as Jane Gilmour
Betty Francisco as Cordelia Smith (Uncredited)
Cora Macey as Mrs. Gilmour
Charles Murray as Pa O'Dare
Eva Novak as Eleanor Hadley
Kate Price as Ma O'Dare
Laurence Wheat as Bob Harrison
Lydia Yeamans Titus as Mrs. Cheston

Production

The scenes which were shot in Technicolor cost a total amount of $100,000. The total budget was $1,500,000.^[2]

This was the final film of actress Marion Aye, a former Mack Sennett bathing beauty, who committed suicide in 1951.^[3]

Preservation status

The film exists, with the Technicolor sequences intact.^[4]

References

Jeff Codori (2012), Colleen Moore; A Biography of the Silent Film Star, McFarland Publishing,(Print ISBN 978-0-7864-4969-9, EBook ISBN 978-0-7864-8899-5).

↑ IMDB entry
↑ Dutch film magazine Het Weekblad: Cinema & Theater #145
↑ http://marionaye.blogspot.com/2015/11/marion-ayes-story.html
↑ SilentEra entry

External links

Films directed by Alfred E. Green

Silk Husbands and Calico Wives (1920)
Through the Back Door (1921)
Little Lord Fauntleroy (1921)
The Bachelor Daddy (1922)
Our Leading Citizen (1922)
The Ghost Breaker (1922)
The Man Who Saw Tomorrow (1922)
Back Home and Broke (1922)
The Ne'er-Do-Well (1923)
Woman-Proof (1923)
Pied Piper Malone (1924)
In Hollywood With Potash and Perlmutter (1924)
Inez from Hollywood (1924)
Sally (1925)
The Man Who Found Himself (1925)
The Girl from Montmartre (1926)
Irene (1926)
Ella Cinders (1926)
Disraeli (1929)
The Green Goddess (1930)
The Man From Blankley's (1930)
Sweet Kitty Bellairs (1930)
Old English (1930)
Men of the Sky (1931)
The Road to Singapore (1931)
Smart Money (1931)
Union Depot (1932)
It's Tough to Be Famous (1932)
The Rich Are Always With Us (1932)
The Dark Horse (1932)
Silver Dollar (1932)
Parachute Jumper (1933)
Baby Face (1933)
I Loved a Woman (1933)
Dark Hazard (1934)
Housewife (1934)
A Lost Lady (1934)
Gentlemen Are Born (1934)
Sweet Music (1935)
The Girl From 10th Avenue (1935)
The Goose and the Gander (1935)
Dangerous (1935)
Colleen (1936)
They Met in a Taxi (1936)
The Golden Arrow (1936)
Two in a Crowd (1936)
More Than a Secretary (1936)
The League of Frightened Men (1937)
Mr. Dodd Takes the Air (1937)
Thoroughbreds Don't Cry (1937)
Let's Get Married (1937)
Ride a Crooked Mile (1938)
The Gracie Allen Murder Case (1939)
King of the Turf (1939)
20,000 Men a Year (1939)
Flowing Gold (1940)
Shooting High (1940)
South of Pago Pago (1940)
East of the River (1940)
The Mayor of 44th Street (1942)
Appointment in Berlin (1943)
Mr. Winkle Goes to War (1944)
A Thousand and One Nights (1945)
The Jolson Story (1946)
The Fabulous Dorseys (1947)
Copacabana (1947)
Four Faces West (1948)
Cover Up (1949)
Sierra (1949)
The Jackie Robinson Story (1950)
Two Gals and a Guy (1951)
Invasion U.S.A. (1952)
The Eddie Cantor Story (1953)
Paris Model (1953)
Top Banana (1954)

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