It was ranked #10 on Screenland's reader poll of "The Ten Best Screenplays Ever Made" in 1924. ĭelight Evans cited the film among "the most entertaining photoplays ever made" on Photoplay in 1923. In 1922, Motion Picture News stated the film was "not only Cosmopolitan's greatest achievement one of the greatest achievements of the silversheet", wrote a positive review of the cast and praised Vignola "for his masterly direction". Sherwood defined the film "gorgeously beautiful flashily romantic and stirringly impressive", ranking it as one of the best pictures of the year and appreciated Vignola's "genius for lighting and composition". The Alhambra Theater in Shelbyville, Indiana, showing the film. Hearst commissioned two songs from Victor Herbert: "The When Knighthood Was in Flower Waltz" and "The Marion Davies March," which were played at the New York premiere. The scene and the dance were filmed on the Laddins Rock Farm in Stamford/Old Greenwich, Connecticut. The barge was a full-sized replica built in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Marion Davies makes her entrance coming down the river on a royal barge. According to Variety, William Randolph Hearst launched "the most expensive and extensive campaign that has ever been organized for anything theatrical", with over 650 billboards in New York, 300 subway advertising placards, special booths in department stores that sold souvenir books, and a dazzling string of electric signs that pervaded Times Square, upon which Will Rogers quipped that Davies's next film would be titled When Electric Light Was in Power. With an estimated cost of $1,500,000, it was considered by Life "the most expensive film that has ever been produced" in 1922. Powell)Įxteriors were shot at Windsor Castle, England.
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