The Virgin Queen is a 1928 American silent short drama film directed by R. William Neill. Released in two-color Technicolor, it was the third short film produced as part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "Great Events" series.
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Cast Forrest Stanley as Sir Walter Ralegh Dorothy Dwan as Bess Throckmorton - Lady-in-Waiting Aileen Manning as Queen Elizabeth Armand Kaliz
Production The film was shot over five days at the Tec-Art Studio in Hollywood.Layton and Pierce 333 The $21,000 budget made it one of the more "higher priced productions" in the "Great Events" series.Slide, Anthony. "The 'Great Events' Series". Silent Topics: Essays on Undocumented Areas of Silent Film. Scarecrow Press, 2005, p. 38.
Preservation Status No complete prints of The Virgin Queen were known to exist as of 2015, but 600 ft from the film's first reel was preserved in 2014 by the George Eastman House.Layton and Pierce 332
See also The Virgin Queen, film from 1955
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