Irene (1926 film)


Irene is a 1926 American silent romantic comedy film starring Colleen Moore, and partially shot in Technicolor. The film was directed by Alfred E. Green, produced by Moore's husband John McCormick, and based on the musical Irene written by James Montgomery with music and lyrics by Harry Tierney and Joseph McCarthy.
As reported in the book and documentary film The Celluloid Closet, actor George K. Arthur plays a flamboyant gay man in the film named "Madame Lucy".

Cast

The scenes which were shot in Technicolor cost a total amount of $100,000. The total budget of the film was $1,500,000.
This was the final film of actress Marion Aye, a former Mack Sennett bathing beauty, who committed suicide in 1951.

Preservation status

The film exists with the Technicolor sequences intact.