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Nell Gwyn
Also known as {Nell Gwynn}
(1926) England
B&W : Eight reels / 7760 feet
Directed by Herbert Wilcox

Cast: Dorothy Gish [Nell Gwyn], Randle Ayrton [Charles II], Juliette Compton [Lady Castlemaine], Sydney Fairbrother [Mrs. Gwyn], Donald Macardle [Duke of Monmouth], Johnny Butt [Samuel Pepys], Gibb McLaughlin [Duke of York], Judd Green [Toby Clinker], Edward Sorley [Dickon], Forrester Harvey [Charles Hart], Fred Rains [Earl of Shaftesbury], Rolf Leslie [Evelyn], Aubrey Fitzgerald [Tom Killigrew], Tom Coventry [the innkeeper], Booth Conway [a messenger], Dorinea Shirley [the maid]

[?] British National Pictures, Limited, and/or W.M. Productions? production; distributed by First National Film Distributors. / Produced by Herbert Wilcox. Scenario by Herbert Wilcox, from an adaptation by Marjorie Bowen of the novel Mistress Nell Gwynne by Joseph Shearing. Art direction by N.G. Arnold. Cinematography by Roy Overbaugh. Intertitles written by J.W. McConaughty. / Released [?] 3 January 1927? / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was released in the USA by Paramount Pictures Corporation on 18 July 1926.

Drama: Historical.

Survival status: Prints exist in the Museum of Modern Art film archive; and in the George Eastman Museum film archive [35mm positive].

Current rights holder: (unknown) [United Kingdom]; Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 27 December 2022.

References: Brownlow-Parade p. 516; Perry-British pp. 58, 356; Weaver-Twenty p. 145 : ClasIm-223 p. 29 : Website-GEM : Website-IMDb.

Home video: DVD.

 
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