The Virgin Queen (1928 film) explained

The Virgin Queen
Director:	R. William Neill
Producer:	Herbert T. Kalmus
Starring:	Forrest Stanley Dorothy Dwan Aileen Manning Armand Kaliz
Cinematography:	George Cave
Studio:	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Technicolor Corporation
Distributor:	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Country:	United States
Language:	Silent English Intertitles
Budget:	$21,245.43^[1]

The Virgin Queen is a 1928 MGM silent fictionalized film short in two-color Technicolor. It was the third short film produced as part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "Great Events" series.

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.^[2] The $21,000 budget made it one of the more "higher priced productions" in the "Great Events" series.^[3]

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.^[4]

See also

• The Virgin Queen, film from 1955

Notes and References

1. Layton, James and David Pierce. The Dawn of Technicolor: 1915-1935. George Eastman House, 2015, p. 333.
2. Layton and Pierce 333
3. Slide, Anthony. "The 'Great Events' Series". Silent Topics: Essays on Undocumented Areas of Silent Film. Scarecrow Press, 2005, p. 38.
4. Layton and Pierce 332