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]
| Dream of Love | |
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 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 |
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Running time | 65 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Languages | Sound (Synchronized) English Intertitles |
| Budget | $221,000[1] |
| Box office | $571,000[1] |
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
editAdrienne, 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
edit- 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
editThe 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
editAccording 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]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ 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
edit- Dream of Love at IMDb
- Dream of Love at AllMovie
- Dream of Love at the TCM Movie Database
