The Seven Swans
Appearance
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Directed by | J. Searle Dawley |
Written by | J. Searle Dawley |
Based on | The Wild Swans by Hans Christian Andersen |
Produced by | Adolph Zukor |
Starring | Marguerite Clark Richard Barthelmess |
Cinematography | H. Lyman Broening |
Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Country | USA |
Language | Silent film..(English intertitles) |
The Seven Swans is a lost[1] 1917 silent film fantasy starring Marguerite Clark. Famous Players Film Company produced and J. Searle Dawley directed.[2]
Plot
[edit]Loosely based on The Wild Swans by Hans Christian Andersen, Clark stars as Princess Tweedledee who later falls in love with Prince Charming. An evil witch, yearning to take over a kingdom, turns the Princess's brothers into swans. Moon Fairies vow to turn her brothers back to humans if she knits them seven robes and not speak to another human for a specified amount of time.
Cast
[edit]- Marguerite Clark - Princess Tweedledee
- William E. Danforth - The King
- Augusta Anderson - The Wicked Queen
- Edwin Denison - The Lord High Chancellor
- Daisy Belmore - The Witch
- Richard Barthelmess - Prince Charming
- Richard Allen - Princess Tweedeldee's Brother
- Jere Austin - Tweedeldee's Brother
- Joseph Sterling - Tweedeldee's Brother
- Frederick Merrick - Tweedeldee's Brother
- Lee F. Daly - Tweedeldee's Brother
- Stanley King - Tweedeldee's Brother
- Gordon Dana - Tweedeldee's Brother
References
[edit]External links
[edit]- The Seven Swans at IMDb.com
- AllMovie.com
- movie herald(archived)
- stills(archived)
Categories:
- 1917 films
- American silent feature films
- Films based on works by Hans Christian Andersen
- Films directed by J. Searle Dawley
- Paramount Pictures films
- Lost American films
- American black-and-white films
- Silent American fantasy films
- 1910s fantasy films
- 1917 lost films
- Lost fantasy films
- Films based on fairy tales
- Works based on The Wild Swans
- 1910s American films
- 1910s English-language films
- Films about swans
- Fantasy film stubs
- 1910s American film stubs