Merry-Go-Round (1923 film)

Merry-Go-Round

Directed by	Erich von Stroheim Rupert Julian
Produced by	Carl Laemmle
Written by	Harvey Gates (story) Finis Fox (scenario) Irving Thalberg (scenario) Rupert Julian (scenario) Erich von Stroheim (scenario)
Starring	Norman Kerry Mary Philbin Edith Yorke Dale Fuller
Cinematography	Charles Kaufman William H. Daniels ?Ben Reynolds
Edited by	James MacKay
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release dates	September 3, 1923 (1923-09-03)
Running time	110 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Merry-Go-Round is a 1923 American feature film directed by Erich von Stroheim and his replacement, Rupert Julian, starring Norman Kerry and Mary Philbin, and released by Universal Pictures.^[1] A copy of the film is held in a collection^[1] and it has been released on dvd.

Plot

A nobleman, posing as a necktie salesman, falls in love with the daughter of a circus puppeteer, even though he is already married to the daughter of his country's war minister.

Cast

Norman Kerry as Count Franz Maxmilian Von Hohenegg
Mary Philbin as Agnes Urban
Dale Fuller as Marianka Huber
Maude George as Madame Elvira
Cesare Gravina as Sylvester Urban
Edith Yorke as Ursula Urban
George Hackathorne as Bartholomew Gruber
Spottiswoode Aitken

Reception

The film was the eight most successful that year at the box office in the US and Canada.^[2]

References

1 2 Progressive Silent Film List: Merry-Go-Round at silentera.com
↑ rentals in US and Canada - see Variety list of box office champions for 1923

External links

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Films directed by Erich von Stroheim

Blind Husbands (1919) The Devil's Pass Key (1920) Foolish Wives (1922) Merry-Go-Round (1923) Greed (1924) The Merry Widow (1925) The Wedding March (1928) Queen Kelly (1929) Hello, Sister! (1933)

Films directed by Rupert Julian

The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin (1918) Merry-Go-Round (1923) The Phantom of the Opera (1925) Three Faces East (1926) The Yankee Clipper (1927) Walking Back (1928) The Cat Creeps (1930)

Irving Thalberg

Producer	Foolish Wives (1922) Merry-Go-Round (1923) The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) His Hour (1924) He Who Gets Slapped (1924) Greed (1924) The Unholy Three (1925) The Merry Widow (1925) The Tower of Lies (1925) The Big Parade (1925) Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925) Torrent (1926) La Bohème (1926) Brown of Harvard (1926) The Road to Mandalay (1926) The Temptress (1926) Valencia (1926) Flesh and the Devil (1926) Twelve Miles Out (1927) The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927) London After Midnight (1927) The Crowd (1928) Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928) White Shadows in the South Seas (1928) Show People (1928) West of Zanzibar (1928) The Broadway Melody (1929) The Trial of Mary Dugan (1929) Voice of the City (1929) Where East Is East (1929) The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1929) The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929) Hallelujah (1929) His Glorious Night (1929) The Kiss (1929) Anna Christie (1930) Redemption (1930) The Divorcee (1930) The Rogue Song (1930) The Big House (1930) The Unholy Three (1930) Let Us Be Gay (1930) Billy the Kid (1930) Way for a Sailor (1930) A Lady's Morals (1930) Inspiration (1931) Trader Horn (1931) The Secret Six (1931) A Free Soul (1931) Just a Gigolo (1931) The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931) The Guardsman (1931) The Champ (1931) Possessed (1931) Private Lives (1931) Mata Hari (1931) Freaks (1932) Tarzan the Ape Man (1932) Grand Hotel (1932) Letty Lynton (1932) As You Desire Me (1932) Red-Headed Woman (1932) Smilin' Through (1932) Red Dust (1932) Rasputin and the Empress (1932) Strange Interlude (1932) Tugboat Annie (1933) Bombshell (1933) Eskimo (1933) Riptide (1934) The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934) The Merry Widow (1934) What Every Woman Knows (1934) No More Ladies (1935) China Seas (1935) Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) A Night at the Opera (1935) Riffraff (1936) Romeo and Juliet (1936) Camille (1936) Maytime (1937) A Day at the Races (1937) Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937) The Good Earth (1937) Marie Antoinette (1938)

Writer	The Trap (1922)

People	Norma Shearer (wife) Irving Thalberg, Jr. (son)

Related	The Love of the Last Tycoon

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