Name: Movie From the Past - The Merry Widow - 1925
Uploaded: 2024-04-04T21:16:57+00:00
Duration: 2 h 17 min 15 s
Description: The Merry Widow is a 1925 American silent romantic drama/black comedy film directed and written by Erich von Stroheim. Released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the film stars Mae Murray, John Gilbert, Roy D'A

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Cooking Creativerse The Merry Widow is a 1925 American silent romantic drama/black comedy film directed and written by Erich von Stroheim. Released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer the film stars Mae Murray John Gilbert Roy D'Arcy and Tully Marshall [3][4] with pre-fame uncredited appearances by Joan Crawford and Clark Gable. The film is based on the Franz Lehár's 1905 operetta of the same name and was its second film adaptation the first being a 1918 Hungarian film directed by Michael Curtiz. While a print of the film still survives the end sequence shot in two-tone Technicolor is now lost.

The Merry Widow is a 1925 American silent romantic drama/black comedy film directed and written by Erich von Stroheim. Released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the film stars Mae Murray, John Gilbert, Roy D'Arcy, and Tully Marshall,[3][4] with pre-fame uncredited appearances by Joan Crawford and Clark Gable.

The film is based on the Franz Lehár's 1905 operetta of the same name, and was its second film adaptation, the first being a 1918 Hungarian film directed by Michael Curtiz.

While a print of the film still survives, the end sequence shot in two-tone Technicolor is now lost.

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