A scheming mother wishes to make a successful match between her daughter and a prince, yet another man, a commoner, may stand in the way.A scheming mother wishes to make a successful match between her daughter and a prince, yet another man, a commoner, may stand in the way.A scheming mother wishes to make a successful match between her daughter and a prince, yet another man, a commoner, may stand in the way.
Russ Powell
- Burgermeister of Rostenburg
- (uncredited)
Florence Wix
- Party Guest
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaThis film is one of over 200 titles in the list of independent feature films made available for television presentation by Advance Television Pictures announced in Motion Picture Herald 4 April 1942. At this time, television broadcasting was in its infancy, almost totally curtailed by the advent of World War II, and would not continue to develop until 1945-1946. Because of poor documentation (feature films were often not identified by title in conventional sources) no record has yet been found of its initial television broadcast. It's earliest documented telecasts took place in both New York City and in Washington DC and in Baltimore Wednesday 13 July 1949 on WJZ (Channel 7) and on WMAL (Channel 7) and on WAAM (Channel 13), and in Philadelphia Saturday 31 December 1949 on WCAU (Channel 10).
- ConnectionsVersion of The Swan (1925)
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Lillian Gish's Talkie Debut
Very rare film based on Molnar's THE SWAN (an alternate title), ONE ROMANTIC NIGHT tells the story of a princess who must choose between a romantic tutor (Conrad Nagel) or a rascally prince (Rod La Rocque). Getting in the way and making things difficult is the princess' mother (Marie Dressler).
A terrific cast makes this watchable (although my copy is bad), but the story is rather dull. Gish (in her talkie debut) looks and sounds great; Dressler of course steals every scene she's in. Nagel is OK, and La Rocque is handsome but somewhat prissy.
At age 37, Gish was probably too old for the part of the princess, but it's the kind of character that fit her screen persona. Gish herself did not like the film and considered it slow and dull. She also didn't like the director, whose work she was unfamiliar with. She had not made a film since 1928's silent THE WIND and wouldn't make another film for 3 years. La Rocque, Nagel, and Dressler had all made talkies before this film.
Oddly, this story was filmed again in the 50s as THE SWAN and starring Grace Kelly and Alec Guinness.
A terrific cast makes this watchable (although my copy is bad), but the story is rather dull. Gish (in her talkie debut) looks and sounds great; Dressler of course steals every scene she's in. Nagel is OK, and La Rocque is handsome but somewhat prissy.
At age 37, Gish was probably too old for the part of the princess, but it's the kind of character that fit her screen persona. Gish herself did not like the film and considered it slow and dull. She also didn't like the director, whose work she was unfamiliar with. She had not made a film since 1928's silent THE WIND and wouldn't make another film for 3 years. La Rocque, Nagel, and Dressler had all made talkies before this film.
Oddly, this story was filmed again in the 50s as THE SWAN and starring Grace Kelly and Alec Guinness.
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- Jan 31, 2008
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- Runtime1 hour 13 minutes
- Color
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- 1.20 : 1
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