Her name was Marion Davies, one the great stars of the silent
era, but she was perhaps best known for her long-standing relationship with William Randolph Hearst and
the lavish, star-studded parties that the couple hosted at Hearst Castle in San
Simeon, California.
This
past week, Undercrank Productions, a specialist is the restoration of
silent films, announced that three of her films from the early 1920s will be
making their home entertainment debuts on July 25.
Key among these is director Robert G. Vignola’s 1922 film
adaptation of Charles Major’s turn of the century best-selling novel, When
Knighthood Was In Flower.
Working with the Library of Congress, Ben Model’s Undercrank Productions
will be making a new 2K scan (from a surviving 35mm nitrate print) of the film,
which will be made available for the first time to the home entertainment
marketplace as a Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack.
A new theatre organ score is also provided by Model.
Davies stars as Mary Tudor, sister to King Henry VIII (Lyn
Harding), who is in love with a commoner (played by Forrest Stanley), but her
brother has other plans for her … a marriage to the King of France!
Also heading home — as DVD-only releases — are The
Bride's Play (1922, direction by George Terwilliger, co-starring John
B. O'Brien and Frank Shannon) and Beauty's Worth (1922, Vignola also
directs and Forrest Stanley is once again her co-star).
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