The Virgin Queen is a 1928 American silent short drama film directed by R. William Neill. Released in two-color Technicolor, it was the third short film produced as part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "Great Events" series.
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Cast
Forrest Stanley as Sir Walter Ralegh
Dorothy Dwan as Bess Throckmorton - Lady-in-Waiting
Aileen Manning as Queen Elizabeth
Armand Kaliz
Production
The film was shot over five days at the Tec-Art Studio in Hollywood. The $21,000 budget made it one of the more "higher priced productions" in the "Great Events" series.
Preservation Status
No complete prints of The Virgin Queen were known to exist as of 2015, but 600 ft from the film's first reel was preserved in 2014 by the George Eastman House.