Bluebeard's 8th Wife | |
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Directed by | Sam Wood |
Written by | Charlton Andrews (adaptation) |
Screenplay by | Sada Cowan |
Based on | La huitième femme de Barbe-Bleue by Alfred Savoir |
Produced by | Adolph Zukor Jesse Lasky |
Starring | Gloria Swanson |
Cinematography | Alfred Gilks |
Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 60 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
Bluebeard's 8th Wife (alternately Bluebeard's Eighth Wife) is a 1923 American silent romantic comedy film produced by Famous Players–Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It was directed by Sam Wood and stars Gloria Swanson. The film is based on the French play La huitième femme de Barbe-Bleue by Alfred Savoir which is based on the Bluebeard tales of the 15th century.[1] The play ran on Broadway in 1921 starring Ina Claire in the Swanson role.[2]
Paramount remade the story in 1938 directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starring Gary Cooper and Claudette Colbert.[3]