Queen Kelly (1929) on Netflix
Prince Wolfram is to marry Queen Regina V of Kronberg. Punished for a night with other women, he rides out on maneuvers and flirts with Kitty Kelly, a convent student.
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Queen Regina V of Kronberg is mad, and Prince Wolfram is pledged to marry her. For spending a night with other women he is ordered out on maneuvers. Along the way he passes a group of convent students and flirts with Kitty Kelly. He remarks that her underwear is visible, and she is embarrassed; she removes it and throws it at him, and the nuns punish her for indecency. That night he takes her from the convent to his room and declares his love.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Queen Kelly (1929)
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- In later interviews Gloria Swanson said Erich von Stroheim's script had misled her: her character was to take over a dance hall, but when she saw the rushes it was clearly a brothel.
- Production of the costly Queen Kelly was shut down after Gloria Swanson complained about the direction it was taking: the European scenes were full of innuendo, but the Africa-set scenes were grim and, she felt, distasteful.
- Erich von Stroheim was fired from Queen Kelly and the African storyline scrapped, but Gloria Swanson and Joseph P. Kennedy still wanted to salvage the European footage because it had been costly and time-consuming and had market value.
- A short extract of Queen Kelly appears in Sunset Boulevard (1950) as an old silent film made by Swanson's character, Norma Desmond, and it was the first time viewers in the U.S. saw any footage of the infamous Swanson-von Stroheim collaboration.
