Shirley (film)
Encyclopedia
Shirley is a 1922 British
silent
drama film
directed by A.V. Bramble
and starring Carlotta Breese, Clive Brook, Elizabeth Irving
and Mabel Terry-Lewis
. It is based on the 1849 novel Shirley
by Charlotte Brontë
.
Cinema of the United Kingdom
The United Kingdom has had a major influence on modern cinema. The first moving pictures developed on celluloid film were made in Hyde Park, London in 1889 by William Friese Greene, a British inventor, who patented the process in 1890. It is generally regarded that the British film industry...
silent
Silent film
A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, pantomime and title cards...
drama film
Drama film
A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...
directed by A.V. Bramble
A.V. Bramble
Albert Victor Bramble was a British actor and film director. Bramble was born in Portsmouth, England in 1887. He began his acting career on the stage. He started acting in films in 1913, and subsequently turned to directing and producing films...
and starring Carlotta Breese, Clive Brook, Elizabeth Irving
Elizabeth Irving
Dorothea Elizabeth Irving OBE, JP was a British actress, the daughter of actors H. B. Irving and Dorothea Baird, and the grand-daughter of Victorian era stage star Henry Irving. Her older brother was the Hollywood set designer and art director Laurence Irving...
and Mabel Terry-Lewis
Mabel Terry-Lewis
Mabel Gwynedd Terry-Lewis was a British actress and a member of the Terry-Gielgud dynasty of actors of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries....
. It is based on the 1849 novel Shirley
Shirley (novel)
Shirley is an 1849 social novel by the English novelist Charlotte Brontë. It was Brontë's second published novel after Jane Eyre . The novel is set in Yorkshire in the period 1811–12, during the industrial depression resulting from the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812...
by Charlotte Brontë
Charlotte Brontë
Charlotte Brontë was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood, whose novels are English literature standards...
.
Cast
- Carlotta Breese as Shirley
- Clive Brook as Robert Moore
- Elizabeth IrvingElizabeth IrvingDorothea Elizabeth Irving OBE, JP was a British actress, the daughter of actors H. B. Irving and Dorothea Baird, and the grand-daughter of Victorian era stage star Henry Irving. Her older brother was the Hollywood set designer and art director Laurence Irving...
as Caroline Helston - Mabel Terry-LewisMabel Terry-LewisMabel Gwynedd Terry-Lewis was a British actress and a member of the Terry-Gielgud dynasty of actors of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries....
as Mrs. Prior - Harvey Braban as Nunnally
- Joe Nightingale
- David Miller