Irene (1926 film)

Irene
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Directed by	Alfred E. Green
Produced by	John McCormick
Written by	June Mathis; Rex Taylor; George Marion, Jr. (titles)
Based on	Irene; by James Montgomery
Starring	Colleen Moore; Lloyd Hughes; George K. Arthur
Music by	Harry Tierney; Joseph McCarthy
Cinematography	Ted D. McCord
Edited by	Edwin Robbins
Distributed by	First National Pictures
Release date	February 21, 1926 (U.S.);
Running time	90 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)
Budget	$1,500,000[1]

Irene is a 1926 American silent romantic comedy film starring Colleen Moore, and partially shot in Technicolor. The film was directed by Alfred E. Green, produced by Moore's husband John McCormick (1893-1961), and based on the musical Irene written by James Montgomery with music and lyrics by Harry Tierney and Joseph McCarthy.

As reported in the book and documentary film The Celluloid Closet, actor George K. Arthur plays a flamboyant gay man in the film named "Madame Lucy".[2]

Cast

The scenes which were shot in Technicolor cost a total amount of $100,000. The total budget of the film was $1,500,000.[1]

This was the final film of actress Marion Aye, a former Mack Sennett bathing beauty, who committed suicide in 1951.[3]

The film exists with the Technicolor sequences intact.[4][5]

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Dutch film magazine Het Weekblad: Cinema & Theater #145
IMDB entry
Marion Aye Archived 2015-11-17 at the Wayback Machine at marionaye.blogspot.com
Progressive Silent Film List: Irene at silentera.com
Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress, p. 90, c.1978 by the American Film Institute)

Jeff Codori (2012), Colleen Moore; A Biography of the Silent Film Star, McFarland Publishing, (Print ISBN 978-0-7864-4969-9, EBook ISBN 978-0-7864-8899-5).

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