Queen Kelly (1929)

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Queen Kelly is an American silent film produced in 1928–29 and released by United Artists. The film was directed by Erich von Stroheim, starring Gloria Swanson in the title role, Walter Byron as her lover, and Seena Owen. The film was produced by Joseph P. Kennedy, who was Swanson's lover at the time.

Production

Swanson had left Paramount Pictures in 1926 to become an independent producer with United Artists, for whom she starred in and produced The Love of Sunya (1927) and Sadie Thompson (1928). She was persuaded to make her next film with Eric von Stroheim by Joseph P. Kennedy, whom Swanson had met in November 1927 and later began an affair.

The production of the costly film was shut down after complaints by Swanson about the direction the film was taking. Though the European scenes were full of innuendo, and featured a philandering prince and a sex-crazed queen, the scenes set in Africa were grim and, Swanson felt, distasteful.

Stroheim was fired from the film, and the African storyline scrapped. Swanson and Kennedy still wanted to salvage the European material because it had been so costly and time-consuming, and had potential market value. An alternate ending was, however, shot on November 24, 1931. In this ending, Kelly dies after her experiences with the prince (it is implied to be suicide). Prince Wolfram is shown visiting the palace.

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