The Queen's Necklace (1929 film)
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Directed by | Tony Lekain Gaston Ravel |
Written by | Alexandre Dumas (novel) Frantz Funck-Brentano |
Starring | Marcelle Chantal Georges Lannes Diana Karenne |
Cinematography | Jean Bachelet |
Edited by | Kratach |
Music by | |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Gaumont (France) UFA (Germany) |
Release date | 22 October 1929 |
Country | France |
Language | French |
The Queen's Necklace (French: Le collier de la reine) is a 1929 French historical drama film directed by Tony Lekain and Gaston Ravel and starring Marcelle Chantal, Georges Lannes and Diana Karenne.[1] The film is an adaptation of Alexandre Dumas's novel The Queen's Necklace which portrays the Affair of the Diamond Necklace which occurred before the French Revolution. The film's art direction was by . The film was made and distributed by Gaumont. In Germany it was released by the major studio UFA.
It was shot as a silent film, with a music soundtrack then added later.
Cast[]
- Marcelle Chantal as La comtesse de la Motte
- Georges Lannes as Le cardinal de Rohan
- Diana Karenne as Marie-Antoinette / Oliva
- as La princesse de Lamballe
- Jean Weber as Le chevalier Réteau de Villette
- as Madame Élisabeth
- Fernand Fabre as Le comte de La Motte
- as Louis XVI
- Odette Talazac as Madame de Misezy
- as Le joaillier
- Gaston Mauger as Monsieur de Crosne
- as Toussaint de Beauvire
- as L'autre joaillier
- as Madame Vigée-Lebrun
- Marco Monti
References[]
- ^ Klossner p.77
Bibliography[]
- Klossner, Michael. The Europe of 1500-1815 on Film and Television: A Worldwide Filmography of Over 2550 Works, 1895 Through 2000. McFarland, 2002.
External links[]
Categories:
- French-language films
- 1929 films
- 1920s historical drama films
- French historical drama films
- French films
- Films based on works by Alexandre Dumas
- Films directed by Gaston Ravel
- Films set in the 18th century
- Gaumont Film Company films
- Transitional sound films
- Works about the Affair of the Diamond Necklace
- Films about Marie Antoinette
- Cultural depictions of Louis XVI
- 1929 drama films
- 1920s French film stubs
- Historical film stubs