Quality Street (1927 film)

Quality Street
Directed by	Sidney Franklin
Written by	Albert Lewin Hans Kraly
Based on	Quality Street 1901 play by J.M. Barrie
Produced by	Marion Davies Irving Thalberg William Randolph Hearst
Starring	Marion Davies Conrad Nagel Helen Jerome Eddy
Cinematography	Hendrik Sartov [fr]
Edited by	Ben Lewis
Production company	Cosmopolitan Productions
Distributed by	Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Release date	November 1, 1927 (1927-11-01)
Running time	80 minutes
Country	United States
Languages	Silent film English intertitles
Budget	$592,000[1]

Quality Street is a 1927 American silent romance film directed by Sidney Franklin and starring Marion Davies, Conrad Nagel and Helen Jerome Eddy. Produced by Cosmopolitan Productions for release through MGM, it was based on the 1901 play of the same name by James M. Barrie. Prints of this film are preserved at the Library of Congress and in the Turner Archive.^[2][3][4]

In 2002, the film was released on DVD by the Milestone Films and Video company releasing through Image Entertainment.^[5]

Quality Street publicity still, 1926

There was also a sound film version made in 1937, starring Katharine Hepburn.

Plot

Cast

• Marion Davies as Phoebe Throssel
• Conrad Nagel as Dr. Valentine Brown
• Helen Jerome Eddy as Susan Throssel
• Flora Finch as Mary Willoughby
• Margaret Seddon as Nancy Willoughby
• Marcelle Corday as Henrietta Turnbull
• Kate Price as Patty

Production

In her 26th film, Marion Davies starred in this romantic drama as a young woman about to be married when the man (Conrad Nagel) suddenly goes off to war. Set during the Napoleonic Wars, Davies made her last silent "costume picture." She plays both Phoebe and (years later) the invented niece Livvy. This was only the second film in which Davies played an "old and faded" woman. The other was in The Young Diana. Davies won rave reviews, but the film was not a success. It earned the lowest gross receipts of all her MGM silent films.^[6]

See also

• Quality Street (1937 film)
• Quality Street (play)

References

1. Slide, Anthony. Silent Topics: Essays on Undocumented Areas of Silent Film. Scarecrow Press. p 26
2. Quality Street at the silentera.com database
3. Catalog of holdings, the American Film Institute collection and the United Artists collection at the Library of Congress page 147 published by The American Film Institute c.1978
4. Quality Street, original 1901 Broadway Production upon which the 1927 film is based produced at the Knickerbocker Theatre November 11, 1901-January 1902; IBDb.com
5. Quality Street dvd specifics, at silentera.com
6. Lorusso, Edward (2017) The Silent Films of Marion Davies, CreateSpace, pp. 143-144.

External links

• Quality Street at IMDb
• Quality Street at the TCM Movie Database
• Quality Street at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
• lobby card to Quality Street
• lobby card Quality Street