The Queen Was in the Parlour (film)
Encyclopedia
The Queen Was in the Parlour is a 1927 British
drama film
directed by Graham Cutts
and starring Lili Damita
, Louis Ralph
and Paul Richter
. It was based on the Noel Coward
play The Queen Was in the Parlour
.
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...
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 Graham Cutts
Graham Cutts
Graham Cutts was a British film director who was one of the leading British directors in the 1920s. His fellow director A. V. Bramble believed that Gainsborough Pictures had been built on the back of his work. His daughter was actress Patricia Cutts...
and starring Lili Damita
Lili Damita
Lili Damita was a French actress who appeared in 33 movies between 1922 and 1937.-Early life and education:...
, Louis Ralph
Louis Ralph
-Selected filmography:* The Queen Was in the Parlour * Ghost Train * Alraune * Artisten * Kongo-Express * The Golden City * I pagliacci -External links:...
and Paul Richter
Paul Richter
Paul Richter was an Austrian film actor. He married the actress Aud Egede-Nissen and was stepfather to Georg Richter.-Selected filmography:* The Indian Tomb * Die Nibelungen * The Sorceror...
. It was based on the Noel Coward
Noël Coward
Sir Noël Peirce Coward was an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".Born in Teddington, a suburb of London, Coward attended a dance academy...
play The Queen Was in the Parlour
The Queen Was in the Parlour
The Queen Was in the Parlour: a romance in three acts is a play by the English writer Noel Coward. Belonging to the Ruritanian romance genre, its title is drawn from a line in the nursery rhyme Sing a Song of Sixpence...
.
Cast
- Lili DamitaLili DamitaLili Damita was a French actress who appeared in 33 movies between 1922 and 1937.-Early life and education:...
- Nadya - Louis RalphLouis Ralph-Selected filmography:* The Queen Was in the Parlour * Ghost Train * Alraune * Artisten * Kongo-Express * The Golden City * I pagliacci -External links:...
- Prince Alex - Paul RichterPaul RichterPaul Richter was an Austrian film actor. He married the actress Aud Egede-Nissen and was stepfather to Georg Richter.-Selected filmography:* The Indian Tomb * Die Nibelungen * The Sorceror...
- Sabien Pascal - Harry LiedtkeHarry Liedtke- Biography :Liedtke was born in Königsberg, East Prussia to a merchant as the seventh out of 12 children. After the death of his father in 1896, he grew up in an orphanage and began a qualification in retail business. By the chance acquaintance of Hans Oberländer, a stage director at Berlin, he...
- Prince Keri - Trude HesterbergTrude HesterbergTrude Hesterberg was a German film actress. She appeared in 89 films between 1917 and 1964.-Selected filmography:* Sand, Love and Salt * The Divorcée * Alraune...
- Herzogin Xenia - Rudolf Klein-RoggeRudolf Klein-RoggeFriedrich Rudolf Klein-Rogge was a German film actor. Klein-Rogge is known for playing sinister figures in films in the 1920s and 1930s as well as being a main-stay in director Fritz Lang's Weimar-era films.- Biography :...
- General Kish - Ernö VerebesErnö VerebesErnö Verebes was an American actor.-Selected filmography:* Ghost Train * The Gallant Hussar *Little Mother *Moonlight Masquerade *The Climax - External links :...
- King's Adjutant - Frida Richard - Zana