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Photograph: Silent Era image collection.
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The Circle
(1925) United States of America
B&W : Six reels / [?] 5447 or 5511? feet
Directed by Frank Borzage
Cast: Eleanor Boardman [Elizabeth Cheney], Malcolm McGregor [Edward ‘Teddy’ Luton], Alec Francis (Alec B. Francis) [Lord Clive Cheney], Eugenie Besserer [Lady Catherine ‘Kitty’ Cheney], George Fawcett [Hugh Porteous], Creighton Hale [Arnold Cheney, Elizabeth’s husband], Otto Hoffman [Dorker, the Cheney butler], Eulalie Jensen [Mrs. Alice Shenstone], Joan Crawford [the young Catherine], Frank Braidwood [the young Hugh], Derek Glynne [the young Clive Cheney], Buddy Smith [Arnold Cheney, as a boy]
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation [A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture]. / Scenario by Kenneth B. Clarke, from the adaptation by Kenneth B. Clarke of the play The Circle by W. Somerset Maugham. Settings (set design) by Cedric Gibbons and James Basevi. Wardrobe designed (costume design) by Ethel P. Chaffin. Photography (cinematography) by Chester A. Lyons (Chester Lyons). Presented by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. / © 14 September 1925 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation [LP21825]. Premiered [?] October? 1925. General release, 2 December 1925. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The play was subsequently filmed as Strictly Unconventional (1930).
Comedy-Drama.
Survival status: Prints exist in the George Eastman Museum film archive [35mm positive, 16mm reduction positive].
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Authors: W. Somerset Maugham - Domestics: Chauffeurs - Marriages: Elopements
Listing updated: 22 September 2024.
References: Film credits, film viewing : Drew-Speaking p. 275; Eames-MGM p. 24; FilmYearBook-1926 p. 37; Kobal-Fifty p. 29; Shipman-Cinema p. 86 : ClasIm-221 p. 14 : Website-AFI; Website-GEM; Website-IMDb.
Home video: DVD.
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