Prunella
6.3
When Tourneur adapted the allegorical plays The Blue Bird by Belgian symbolist Maurice Maeterlinck and Prunella by British playwrights Harley Granville Barker and Lawrence Housman in 1918, they had been successfully staged for many years, opening in Moscow and on Broadway and everywhere. Today, the saccharine charm of these anti-modern fairy tales doesn’t work any more. But undistracted by the meaning or action of the film, we can enjoy the surface of Prunella all the better, the dazzling sets and costumes, silhouettes and painted backdrops created by the great art director Ben Carré in a fashionable Art Déco Neo-Rococo style.
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Cast
16 people
Marguerite Clark
Prunella
Also in
Snow White
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
Isabel Berwin
Prin
Also in
The Strong Way
The Beloved Blackmailer
Harley Granville-Barker
Maurice Tourneur
John van den Broek
Nora Cecil
Known for
The Thin Man Goes Home
Easy Living
Laurence Housman
Sosthène Carré
William J. Gross
Also in
The Blue Bird
Headin' Home
Charles Maigne
Marcia Harris
Also in
The Poor Little Rich Girl
Isn't Life Wonderful
Charles Hartley
The Gardener
Maurice Tourneur Director · Charles Maigne Writer John van den Broek Cinematographer
United States release January 1, 1918 · Produced in United States
Production
Famous Players-Lasky Corporation
Production · Distribution
United States
Produced in
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Original language
English
Release dates
United States · January 1, 1918
Theatrical
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