Prunella (1918)
50 min
When Tourneur adapted the allegorical plays The Blue Bird by Belgian symbolist Maurice Maeterlinck and Prunella by British playwrights Harley Granville Barker and Lawrence Housman in 1918, they had been successfully staged for many years, opening in Moscow and on Broadway and everywhere. Today, the saccharine charm of these anti-modern fairy tales doesn’t work any more. But undistracted by the meaning or action of the film, we can enjoy the surface of Prunella all the better, the dazzling sets and costumes, silhouettes and painted backdrops created by the great art director Ben Carré in a fashionable Art Déco Neo-Rococo style.
- Release date
- January 1, 1918
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Marguerite Clark as Prunella
- Jules Raucourt as Pierrot
- Henry Leone as Scaramel
- Isabel Berwin as Prim
- Marcia Harris as Prude
- Nora Cecil as Privacy
- William J. Gross as The Gardener
- A. Voorhees Wood as The Gardener
- Charles Hartley as The Gardener
- Arthur Kennedy as The Gardener's boy
Crew
- Maurice Tourneur · Director
- Harley Granville-Barker · Writer
- Laurence Housman · Writer
- Charles Maigne · Writer
- John van den Broek · Cinematographer