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Marie Prevost and Monte Blue.
Photograph: Silent Era image collection.
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The Marriage Circle
(1924) United States of America
B&W : Eight reels / 8200 feet
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch
Cast: Monte Blue [Doctor Franz Braun], Florence Vidor [Charlotte Braun, Franz’s wife], Creighton Hale [Doctor Gustav Mueller], Adolphe Menjou [Professor Josef Stock], Marie Prevost [Mizzi Stock, Josef’s wife], Harry Myers [the detective], Dale Fuller [Braun’s neurotic patient]; Esther Ralston, [?] Alan George? [a party guest]
Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated, production; distributed by Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated [An Ernst Lubitsch Production]. / Produced by Ernst Lubitsch. Scenario by Paul Bern, from the adaptation by Paul Bern of the play Nur ein Traum (Only a Dream) by Lothar Schmidt. Art direction by Lewis Geib and Esdras Hartley. Electrical effects by F.N. Murphy. Assistant directors, James Flood and Henry Blanke. Photography (cinematography) by Charles Van Enger [?] + [Henry Sharp]? Title decorations (intertitles artwork) by Victor Vance. Presented by Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated. / © 12 December 1923 by Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated [LP19705]. Premiered 16 January 1924 at the Rialto Theatre in Los Angeles, California. Released [?] 10 February? 1924. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Lubitsch’s second American film; his first under his Warner Brothers contract. The film was remade by Lubitsch for Paramount as One Hour with You (1932).
Comedy: Domestic.
Survival status: Prints exist in the Museum of Modern Art film archive [35mm positive, 16mm reduction positive]; in the Cineteca Nazionale film archive [35mm positive]; in the UCLA Film and Television Archive film archive [16mm reduction positive]; in the Academy Film Archive film archive [16mm reduction positive]; in the Pacific Film Archive film archive [16mm reduction positive]; in the Cineteca Del Friuli film archive [16mm reduction positive]; in the Gosfilmofond film archive; in the Eye Film Instituut Nederland film archive; in the Filmmuseum im Münchener Stadtmuseum film archive; in the Cinematheque Royale de Belgique film archive; in the Arhiva Nationala De Filme film archive; in the Harvard Film Archive film archive; in the film holdings of EmGee Film Library [16mm reduction positive]; and in private film collections [16mm reduction positives].
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Austria: Vienna - Flowers: Roses - Handwriting - Letters - Medical: Doctors
Listing updated: 7 May 2024.
References: Film credits, film viewing : Bardèche-History p. 287; Bohn-Light pp. xxiii, 89; Drew-Speaking pp. 193, 283; Everson-American pp. 268, 323; Fell-History p. 119; FilmYearBook-1926 p. 40; Higashi-Virgins pp. 141, 148-149; Lahue-Kops p. 123; Leish-Cinema p. 50; Limbacher-Feature p. 155; Sarris-Sternberg p. 11; Sato-Currents p. 32; Shipman-Cinema p. 82; Vermilye-Twenties pp. 90-92 : Website-AFI; Website-ASFFDb; Website-IMDb; Website-NFPF.
Home video: DVD.
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