Into Her Kingdom

Into Her Kingdom is a 1926 American silent romantic drama film directed by Svend Gade and starring Corinne Griffith. The film, which dramatizes the Russian Revolution, featured a Technicolor sequence. It was based on a 1925 short story of the same name by Ruth Comfort Mitchell, originally published in Red Book Magazine.[1] It is not known whether the film currently survives.[2]

Into Her Kingdom
Lobby card
Directed bySvend Gade
Written byRuth Comfort Mitchell (story)
Carey Wilson
William M. Conselman
Produced byCorinne Griffith
StarringCorinne Griffith
Einar Hanson
Claude Gillingwater
Charles Crockett
Evelyn Selbie
CinematographyHarold Wenstrom
Distributed byFirst National Pictures
Release date
  • August 8, 1926 (1926-08-08)
Running time
7 reels
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)
Into Her Kingdom ad in Motion Picture News, 1926

Cast
  • Corinne Griffith as Grand Duchess Tatiana at 12 and 20
  • Einar Hanson as Stepan, Son of a Peasant at 14 and 22) (credited as Einar Hansen)
  • Claude Gillingwater as Ivan, Their Tutor
  • Charles Crockett as Senov, A Carnival Fakir
  • Evelyn Selbie as Stepan's Mother
  • Larry Fisher as A Farmhand
  • H.C. Simmons as Czar Nicholas
  • Ellinor Vanderveer as Czarina (credited as Elinor Vanderveer)
  • Byron Sage as Zarevitch
  • Tom Murray as Bolshevik Guard
  • Marcelle Corday as Tatiana's Maid
  • Michael Pleschkoff as Court Chamberlain (credited as Major General Michael N. Pleschkoff)
  • Max Davidson as Shoestring Salesman
  • Allan Sears as American Customer
  • Mary Louise Miller as Daughter of Stepan and Tatiana
  • Theodore Lodi as Russian Officer and Court Leader (credited as General Lodijensky)
  • Alexander Ikonnikov as Russian Officer and Court Leader (credtied as Major General Ikanikoff)
  • Nicholas Bogomoletz as Russian Officer and Court Leader (credited as Major General Bogomoletz)
  • George Blagoi as Russian Officer and Court Leader (credited as Lieutenant George Blagoi)
  • Gene Walski as Russian Officer and Court Leader (credited as Lieutenant Gene Walski)
  • Feodor Chaliapin Jr. as Russian Officer and Court Leader (credited as Feador Chalyapin Jr.)
  • George Davis as Russian Officer and Court Leader

Production

This was the second to last directorial effort of Svend Gade in the United States before returning to Denmark. At the time of production, several expatriate members of the Czarist Russian nobility and military class were living in the Los Angeles area and working as extras in films. Some were recruited to serves as cast members and technical advisors on this film. In a Technicolor insert, running 221 feet, the Weaver of Fate picks out multicolored cords and plays tricks with them. The red cord represents the girl and the brown cord represents the boy.

References
  1. Gevinson, Alan. Within Our Gates: Ethnicity in American Feature Films, 1911-1960. Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 503. Accessed June 4, 2013
  2. Progressive Silent Film List: Into Her Kingdom at silentera.com


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