Nell Gwyn (1926 film)

Nell Gwyn
Directed by	Herbert Wilcox
Produced by	Herbert Wilcox
Written by	Marjorie Bowen (novel) Herbert Wilcox
Starring	Dorothy Gish Randle Ayrton Juliette Compton Sydney Fairbrother
Cinematography	Roy F. Overbaugh
Edited by	William Hamilton
Production company	British National Pictures
Distributed by	First National Film Distributors Paramount Pictures (US)
Release dates	18 July 1926 (US)
Running time	80 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Nell Gwyn is a 1926 British romance film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Dorothy Gish, Randle Ayrton and Juliette Compton.^[1] It was based on the 1926 novel Mistress Nell Gwyn by Marjorie Bowen^[2] and follows the life of Nell Gwynne the mistress of Charles II. Wilcox later made a second version of the film in 1934 Nell Gwynn which starred Anna Neagle.

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 - Innkeeper
Booth Conway - Messenger
Dorinea Shirley - Maid

References

↑ http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/293651
↑ Nell Gwyn: A Decoration, by Marjorie Bowen, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1926. This book was not written under the pen name, Joseph Shearing

Bibliography

Street, Sarah. Transatlantic crossings: British feature films in the United States. Continuum International Publishing, 2002.

External links

Nell Gwyn at the Internet Movie Database

The films of Herbert Wilcox

Chu-Chin-Chow (1923)
Southern Love (1924)
Decameron Nights (1924)
Nell Gwyn (1926)
London (1926)
Mumsie (1927)
Tip Toes (1927)
Madame Pompadour (1927)
The Only Way (1927)
Dawn (1928)
The Bondman (1929)
The Woman in White (1929)
The Loves of Robert Burns (1930)
The Chance of a Night Time (1931)
Carnival (1931)
The Blue Danube (1932)
Goodnight, Vienna (1932)
Money Means Nothing (1932)
The King's Cup (1933)
The Little Damozel (1933)
Bitter Sweet (1933)
Yes, Mr Brown (1933)
The Queen's Affair (1934)
Nell Gwyn (1934)
Peg of Old Drury (1935)
This'll Make You Whistle (1936)
Three Maxims (1936)
London Melody (1937)
Limelight (1937)
Victoria the Great (1937)
Sixty Glorious Years (1938)
Nurse Edith Cavell (1939)
Irene (1940)
No, No, Nanette (1940)
Sunny (1941)
They Flew Alone (1942)
Forever and a Day (1943)
Yellow Canary (1943)
I Live in Grosvenor Square (1945)
Piccadilly Incident (1946)
The Courtneys of Curzon Street (1947)
Spring in Park Lane (1948)
Elizabeth of Ladymead (1948)
Maytime in Mayfair (1949)
Odette (1950)
Into the Blue (1950)
The Lady with a Lamp (1951)
Derby Day (1952)
Trent's Last Case (1952)
Laughing Anne (1953)
Trouble in the Glen (1954)
Lilacs in the Spring (1954)
King's Rhapsody (1955)
My Teenage Daughter (1956)
These Dangerous Years (1957)
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk (1958)
Wonderful Things! (1958)
The Lady Is a Square (1959)
The Heart of a Man (1959)

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