The Venice Film Festival has set as its pre-opening event the launch of a freshly restored — and re-imagined — version of Erich von Stroheim’s controversial 1929 silent movie “Queen Kelly.” The ...

Queen Kelly, which Erich von Stroheim originally wrote as The Swamp, was the director's eighth silent picture and was undertaken at the behest of Gloria Swanson. Best guess is that Stroheim's full ...

The love of a prince for a commoner---an unfinished Gloria Swanson production directed by Erich von Stroheim. Walter Byron, Seena Owen. For film-history buffs. Not released to movie theaters.

Dir. Eric von Stroheim (1929) Joseph Kennedy bankrolled this extravaganza for his then mistress Gloria Swanson. Stroheim was fired halfway through this last version of his favorite story (innocent ...