Irene (1926)

Curiosidades

Irene is a 1926 American silent romantic comedy film directed by Alfred E. Green, and produced by Colleen Moore's husband John McCormick. The film stars Moore, Lloyd Hughes, George K. Arthur, Ida Darling, Edward Earle, Bess Flowers and Charles Murray.

Production

Richard Rowland, First National vice president, said they purchased the stage play for $60,000, because "the play contained the elements necessary to present one of our stars to the advantage we were seeking for her." The Film Daily reported in September 1925, that filming would being in October with John Francis Dillon directing the feature, and Dorothy Seastrom listed in the cast, but neither one of them remained with the project.

In October 1925, Variety Magazine announced that Alfred E. Green would be directing the film, and Dillon had been reassigned to direct Too Much Money. Principal photography began in October 1925, at United Studios in Hollywood, with the production being wrapped up by January 1926. Mervyn LeRoy, the assistant director, was dispatched to Los Angeles to look at department stores for inspiration for the project.

The fashion show scene near the end of the film required sixty "beautiful" girls who had to be "uniform in height and able to wear gorgeous gowns like a shop window model." Moore recalled that many of the girls were "winners from beauty contests staged in New York and other parts of the country." The outfits that Moore wore in the film were given to her, and since some of them were lined with fur, she removed it, and fashioned coats out of the fu…

Ler na Wikipédia · Texto da Wikipédia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Dados do Wikidata.