Madame du Barry is a 1928 MGM short silent fictionalized film short in two-color Technicolor. It was the eighth film produced as part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "Great Events" series, and the last to be released before the new year.
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Cast Priscilla Dean as Madame DuBarry Mahlon Hamilton as Louis XV George Davis Denis Auburn Bill Elliott (as Gordon Elliott) David Mir Charles Thurston
Production The film was shot at the Tec-Art Studio in Hollywood.Slide, Anthony. "The 'Great Events' Series". Silent Topics: Essays on Undocumented Areas of Silent Film. Scarecrow Press, 2005, p. 38.
Preservation Status Madame du Barry has not survived in its original two-reel form. 800 feet of 35mm material from the second reel has been preserved by the Library of Congress in Washington, DC.Layton and Pierce 339
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