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Queen Kelly (1929) was a Drama - Silent Films Film directed by Erich von Stroheim, Sam Wood, Edmund Goulding, Ryszard Bolesławski, Gregg Toland and Gloria Swanson and produced by Gloria Swanson and Erich von Stroheim.

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Queen Kelly: Norma and Max's Wild Ride

By FlickChick on Aug 30, 2013 From A Person in the Dark

Some stories are so perfectly symmetrical you just have to sit back in amazement and feel that the universe is truly some magical Rubiks Cube. I am blessed to live in a location that affords me the opportunity to see silent films on the big screen with live accompaniment (usually by the there... Read full article

Queen Kelly (1929)

By Angela on May 5, 2010 From Hollywood Revue

Sunset Boulevard is a movie you can easily appreciate if you don’t know anything about the silent film era.  But if you do know about the silent film era, it’s chock full of little in-jokes that really add to the whole experience.  The most famous example would be the scene where Norma... Read full article

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Queen Kelly Quotes:

Kitty Kelly, aka Queen Kelly: [stunned to learn that Wolfram is engaged to the Queen] He's going... to marry... you?
Queen Regina V: *I* am going to marry *HIM*!
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Queen Kelly Facts
Gordon Pollock was replaced with Paul Ivano after the first day of shooting after some costume tests photographed by Ivano proved to be much more satisfactory than the scenes (from the Kambach Road sequence) that Pollock had taken.
When Tully Marshall dribbled tobacco juice on Gloria Swanson's hand during the wedding sequence and explained that director Erich von Stroheim ordered him to do it, it was the final straw. She called producer Joseph P. Kennedy and demanded that von Stroheim be fired. He was, effectively shutting down the production.
Gloria Swanson hosted a US television broadcast of the film in 1966. The version that aired featured the European ending.
A clip from the film appears in Sunset Blvd., where Norma Desmond (played by Gloria Swanson), a silent movie star who is planning a comeback, watches one of her former films. Erich von Stroheim plays Max Von Mayerling, Desmond's butler, who serves as projectionist for the film clip. It is later revealed that Max was the silent movie director who discovered Norma Desmond. Director Billy Wilder recalled that it was von Stroheim's idea to use the clip from _Queen Kelly_ (1932) in Sunset Blvd., as a way of "art imitating life."
According to crew members, the girls who accompany Wolfram to the palace gates were played by real prostitutes from one of the best brothels in Hollywood.
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