Dream of Love
1928 film by Fred Niblo / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Dream of Love is a 1928 American synchronized sound biographical drama film directed by Fred Niblo, and starring Joan Crawford and Nils Asther. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process. The sound was recorded via the Western Electric sound system. The film is based on the 1849 French tragedy Adrienne Lecouvreur by Eugène Scribe and Ernest Legouvé.[2]
Dream of Love | |
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Directed by | Fred Niblo |
Screenplay by | Dorothy Farnum Marian Ainslee (titles) Ruth Cummings (titles) |
Based on | Adrienne Lecouvreur by Ernest Legouvé and Eugène Scribe |
Produced by | Fred Niblo |
Starring | Joan Crawford Nils Asther Aileen Pringle Warner Oland |
Cinematography | Oliver T. Marsh William H. Daniels |
Edited by | James C. McKay |
Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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Running time | 65 minutes |
Country | United States |
Languages | Sound (Synchronized) English Intertitles |
Budget | $221,000[1] |
Box office | $571,000[1] |
In the film, Asther plays Prince Maurice de Saxe and Crawford plays Adrienne Lecouvreur, a Gypsy performer, in a tale of lost love and revenge. Dream of Love is now considered lost.[3][4][5]