''The Seven Swans'' is a lost 1917 silent film fantasy starring

Marguerite Clark Helen Marguerite Clark (February 22, 1883 – September 25, 1940) was an American theatre, stage and silent film actress. As a movie actress, at one time Clark was second only to Mary Pickford in popularity. With a few Snow White (1916 film) ...

Famous Players Film Company The Famous Players Film Company was a film company founded in New York City in 1912 by Adolph Zukor in partnership with the Frohman brothers, powerful theatre owners and producers there. History Discussions to form the company were held at Th ...

produced and

J. Searle Dawley James Searle Dawley (October 4, 1877 – March 30, 1949) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter, stage actor, and playwright. Between 1907 and the mid-1920s, while working for Edison, Rex Motion Picture Company, Famous Playe ...

directed.The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: ''The Seven Swans''
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Plot

Loosely based on ''

The Wild Swans "The Wild Swans" () is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a princess who rescues her 11 brothers from a spell cast by an evil queen. The tale was first published on 2 October 1838 in Andersen's '' Fairy Tales Told for C ...

'' by

Hans Christian Andersen Hans Christian Andersen ( , ; 2 April 1805 – 4 August 1875) was a Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogue (literature), travelogues, novels, and poems, he is best remembered for his literary fairy tales. Andersen's fai ...

, Clark stars as Princess Tweedledee who later falls in love with

Prince Charming Prince Charming is a fairy tale stock character archetype who comes to the rescue of a damsel in distress and must engage in a quest to liberate her from an evil spell. This classification suits most heroes of a number of traditional folk tales ...

. An evil witch, yearning to take over a kingdom, turns the Princess's brothers into swans. Moon Fairies vow to turn her brothers back to humans if she knits them seven robes and not speak to another human for a specified amount of time.

Cast

- Princess Tweedledee *William E. Danforth - The King *

Augusta Anderson Augusta Anderson (7 November 1875 – 18 December 1951) was a Swedish film actress who appeared in several American films from 1914 to 1937. She was married to Keystone comedian and assistant director Andy Anderson. She was born in Öberga, ...

- The Wicked Queen *Edwin Denison - The Lord High Chancellor *

Daisy Belmore Daisy Belmore (30 June 1874 – 12 December 1954) was an English stage and film actress. Born in England, Belmore moved to the United States in 1910 where she settled, achieving citizenship in 1939 and fame as a leading stage actress, as well a ...

- The Witch *

Richard Barthelmess Richard Semler Barthelmess (May 9, 1895 – August 17, 1963) was an American film actor, principally of the Hollywood silent era. He starred opposite Lillian Gish in D. W. Griffith's '' Broken Blossoms'' (1919) and ''Way Down East'' (1920) and ...

*Richard Allen - Princess Tweedeldee's Brother *

Jere Austin Jere Austin (born John Van Akin Austin; March 24, 1876 – November 12, 1927) was an American silent film actor from Minnesota. He began in appearing in films in 1914, and made his last appearance in Cecil B. DeMille's ''King of Kings'' (1927) ...

- Tweedeldee's Brother *Joseph Sterling - Tweedeldee's Brother *Frederick Merrick - Tweedeldee's Brother *Lee F. Daly - Tweedeldee's Brother *Stanley King - Tweedeldee's Brother *Gordon Dana - Tweedeldee's Brother

References

External links

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