LADY WINDERMERE’S FAN – Ronald Colman – d: Ernst Lubitsch
Lady Windermere’s Fan (1925)
Direction: Ernst Lubitsch
Screenplay: Julien Josephson; titles: Maude Fulton and Erik Yorke; from Oscar Wilde’s play
Cast: Ronald Colman, May McAvoy, Bert Lytell, Irene Rich, Edward Martindel
Bert Lytell is the nice husband, May McAvoy the jealous wife, Ronald Colman the other man, and Irene Rich (above) the scene stealer in Ernst Lubitsch’s delightful film version of Oscar Wilde’s play Lady Windermere’s Fan.
In the film, Rich plays Mrs. Erlynne, a woman of the world in search of a lordly husband. McAvoy is her clueless daughter, Lady Windermere: she doesn’t know her mother’s identity and mistakenly believes that Mrs. Erlynne has set her sights on handsome Lord Windermere (Lytell).
Petulant child that she is, Lady Windermere goes after eligible [...]
by Andre Soares | March 30, 2009
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Tags: Bert Lytell, Classic Movies, Edward Martindel, Ernst Lubitsch, Film Reviews, Four-Star Movies, Irene Rich, Julien Josephson, Maude Fulton, May McAvoy, Oscar Wilde, Ronald Colman, Silent Films, Sophisticated Comedies
