The Virgin Queen is a 1928 MGM silent fictionalized film short in two-color Technicolor. It was the third short film produced as part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "Great Events" series.

Plot summary

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.

The Virgin Queen (1928 film)

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.

The Virgin Queen (1928 film)

See also

The Virgin Queen (1955 film)

The Virgin Queen (1928 film)

References

External links

1928 films

American silent short films

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer short films

Silent films in color

American biographical films

Films about Elizabeth I

Cultural depictions of Walter Raleigh

Films set in Tudor England

1920s American films