Prunella

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Marguerite Clark

Prunella

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Isabel Berwin

Prin

Age : N/A | Popularity : 4%

Nora Cecil

Age : 72 | Popularity : 8%

William J. Gross

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Marcia Harris

Age : 79 | Popularity : 3%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Maurice Tourneur
Camera	Director of Photography	John van den Broek
Writing	Writer	Charles Maigne
Art	Art Direction	Sosthène Carré
Department	Role	Name

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