Madame du Barry (1928 film)

Madame du Barry is a 1928 MGM short silent fictionalized film short in two-color Technicolor. It was the eighth film produced as part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "Great Events" series, and the last to be released before the new year.

Madame du Barry
Directed by	R. William Neill
Written by	Jack Cunningham
Screenplay by	Jack Cunningham
Produced by	Herbert T. Kalmus
Starring	Priscilla Dean Mahlon Hamilton
Cinematography	George Cave
Edited by	Natalie Kalmus
Production companies	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Technicolor Corporation
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date	November 17, 1928 (1928-11-17)[1]
Country	United States
Languages	Silent English Intertitles

Plot

Cast

• Priscilla Dean as Madame DuBarry
• Mahlon Hamilton as Louis XV
• George Davis
• Denis Auburn
• Bill Elliott (as Gordon Elliott)
• David Mir
• Charles Thurston

Production

The film was shot at the Tec-Art Studio in Hollywood.^[2]

Preservation Status

Madame du Barry has not survived in its original two-reel form. 800 feet of 35mm material from the second reel has been preserved by the Library of Congress in Washington, DC.^[3]