The Student Prince
(The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg)
1927 Programme for Tivoli Strand
Condition: VG+ / EX. Cover very lightly sun faded and minor fox soiling, light roll crease, internally fine.
24 pages 6 full page b/w still scenes & 5 half page from the movie plus movie details and advertisments of the period. Original price still attached '3d'
Director:Ernst Lubitsch.
Genre: Drama / Comedy / Romance
Ernst Lubitsch's silent films are as graceful and enchanting as his sound pictures, but the director's silents are unfairly left in the corner and don't always get the distinction they truly deserve. Along with "Lady Windermere's Fan" and "The Marriage Circle", this heartbreaking silent classic is one of Lubitsch's most perfect and poignant American silent films.
"The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg"(surviving copies only say "In Old Heidelberg") is a very moving and heartbreaking love story and pretty much in the best Lubitsch tradition of subtle, graceful, witty romantic comedy, tinged with an air of sadness and poignancy, much like what you see in the later Lubitsch sound masterworks like "The Shop Around the Corner", "Heaven Can Wait", and "Cluny Brown". Norma Shearer gives what could be her greatest and most satisfying silent performance as Kathi, a popular barmaid with fraternal students and townsfolk in the quasi-mythical university town of Heidelberg. Ramon Novaro is superb as her prince charming, the student prince who falls in love with her.
Starring:
Ramon Novarro ... Crown Prince Karl Heinrich
Norma Shearer ... Kathi
Jean Hersholt ... Dr. Friedrich Jüttner
Gustav von Seyffertitz ... King Karl VII
Philippe De Lacy ... Young Karl (as Philipe de Lacy)
Edgar Norton ... Lutz
Bobby Mack ... Johann Kellermann
Edward Connelly ... Prime Minister Von Haugk
Otis Harlan ... Old Ruder
Hans Joby ... Student (as John S. Peters)
Edythe Chapman ... Young Karl's nanny
