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Dream of Love
Dream of Love
	Original Film Poster
Directed by	Fred Niblo
Screenplay by	Dorothy Farnum; Marian Ainslee; (titles); Ruth Cummings; (titles)
Based on	Adrienne Lecouvreur; by Ernest Legouvé and Eugène Scribe
Produced by	Fred Niblo
Starring	Joan Crawford; Nils Asther; Aileen Pringle; Warner Oland
Cinematography	Oliver T. Marsh; William H. Daniels
Edited by	James C. McKay
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date	December 1, 1928;
Running time	65 minutes
Country	United States
Languages	Sound (Synchronized); English Intertitles
Budget	$221,000
Box office	$571,000

Dream of Love is a 1928 American synchronized sound biographical drama film directed by Fred Niblo, and starring Joan Crawford and Nils Asther. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process. The sound was recorded via the Western Electric sound system. The film is based on the 1849 French tragedy Adrienne Lecouvreur by Eugène Scribe and Ernest Legouvé.^[2]

In the film, Asther plays Prince Maurice de Saxe and Crawford plays Adrienne Lecouvreur, a Gypsy performer, in a tale of lost love and revenge. Dream of Love is now considered lost.^[3]^[4]^[5]

Plot

Adrienne, a Gypsy girl performing in a traveling carnival, is unable to find true love for herself until she makes the acquaintance of Prince Maurice. They fall in love, but must part when, for diplomatic reasons, the prince is called upon to make love to the rich wife of an influential duke. Adrienne later becomes a popular stage actress and again meets the prince. Coincidentally, she is appearing in a play which resembles the sad story of her earlier relationship with the prince. Maurice is struggling to win his throne from a usurping dictator. With Adrienne's help, he dodges an assassination attempt and becomes king.

Cast

Nils Asther as Prince Maurice de Saxe
Joan Crawford as Adrienne Lecouvreur
Aileen Pringle as The Duchess
Warner Oland as The Duke, Current Dictator
Carmel Myers as The Countess
Harry Reinhardt as Count
Harry Myers as The Baron
Alphonse Martell as Michonet
Fletcher Norton as Ivan

Music

The sound version featured a theme song entitled “Love O’ Mine” which was composed by Ernst Luz and published as sheet music by Robbins.

Box office

According to MGM records the film earned $339,000 in the US and Canada and $232,000 elsewhere resulting in a profit of $138,000.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
^ White Munden, Kenneth (1997). The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films, 1921-1930. University of California Press. p. 202. ISBN 0-520-20969-9.
^ Dream of Love at silentera.com database
^ Munich, Adrienne, ed. (2011). Fashion In Film. Indiana University Press. p. 156. ISBN 978-0-253-22299-2.
^ The Library of Congress/FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:Dream of Love

External links

Dream of Love at IMDb
Dream of Love at the TCM Movie Database

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[Mannix-1] The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.

[2] White Munden, Kenneth (1997). The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films, 1921-1930. University of California Press. p. 202. ISBN 0-520-20969-9.

[3] Dream of Love at silentera.com database

[4] Munich, Adrienne, ed. (2011). Fashion In Film. Indiana University Press. p. 156. ISBN 978-0-253-22299-2.

[5] The Library of Congress/FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:Dream of Love

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