Lady Windermere's Fan

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Ronald Colman, Bert Lytell, May McAvoy, and Irene Rich in Lady Windermere's Fan (1925)

A society woman believes her husband is having an affair, a misconception which may have dire personal consequences for all involved.A society woman believes her husband is having an affair, a misconception which may have dire personal consequences for all involved.A society woman believes her husband is having an affair, a misconception which may have dire personal consequences for all involved.

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Irene Rich

Mrs. Erlynne

May McAvoy

Lady Windermere

Bert Lytell

Lord Windermere

Ronald Colman

Lord Darlington

Edward Martindel

Lord Augustus Lorton
(as Edw. Martindel)

Carrie Daumery

The Duchess of Berwick
(as Mme. Daumery)

Billie Bennett

Lady Plymdale
(uncredited)

Michael Dark

Party Guest
(uncredited)

Helen Dunbar

Mrs. Cowper-Cowper
(uncredited)

Frank Finch Smiles

Waiter with Party Guest List
(uncredited)

Larry Steers

Party Guest
(uncredited)

Ellinor Vanderveer

Party Guest
(uncredited)

Percy Williams

Waiter at the Party
(uncredited)

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10/10

Word master Oscar Wilde's play as a silent movie?

Perhaps only Ernst Lubitsch could have created this masterpiece, a play by one of the world's greatest users of words turned into a silent motion picture.

I remember seeing this at the late and very lamented Silent Movie Theatre on Fairfax in Los Angeles, in the 1970s. And I remember marveling then how Lubitsch was able to create such a magnificent work.

Yes, he had the help of superlative actors -- May McAvoy's performance was truly a revelation -- and of course had the basic Wilde play as well as Julien Josephson's adaption, but it's his camera placement and where the actors performed that make this such a wonder.

I cannot recommend too strongly this "Lady Windermere's Fan," but when you go to YouTube, be careful to check out the various editions before you settle down to watch. One is terrible, but the one I saw is great. Worthy of a great movie.

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One of the 50 films in the three-disk boxed DVD set called "More Treasures from American Film Archives, 1894-1931" (2004), compiled by the National Film Preservation Foundation from five American film archives. This film is preserved by the Museum of Modern Art, has a running time of 89 minutes and an added piano music score.