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Removed-Eric von Stroheim as director of Queen Kelly, starring Gloria Swanson. He was paid $75,000 for the story and his direction of it so far. Director Edmund Goulding took his place...
Erich yon Stroheim takes his time. He took three years to make "The Wedding March" and he takes some two hours to show it to you at the Met this week. He is in a position to do as he pleases, and from a glance at his past productions one understands why the producers allow him all sorts of liberties. But when the present picture has been added to the list of past pictures made by von Stroheim the general average will have fallen considerably...
...drags. There is no question that some of the photography question that some of the photography is excellent, that scenes are skillfully put together, and that Fay Wray does a first class bit of acting. But somehow the thing seems to drag out interminably. As a picture by von Stroheim. "The Wedding March" is probably worth seeing, and as movies go it certainly is more than average, but none the less in view of what has been said in anticipation it is a great disappointment...
Married. Sylvanus Stokes Jr., Manhattan yachtsman; to Miss Patty du Pont, cinemactress; in Hollywood, Calif. Eric von Stroheim functioned as best...
...present opus Mr. Griffith fools around with a European kingdom, chases an American girl all over Europe, runs into a nasty revolution. Most of these things have been done before?most recently by Eric von Stroheim's The Merry Widow...