Quality Street (1927 film)


Quality Street is a 1927 MGM silent film based on the 1901 play by James M. Barrie which starred Barrie favorite Maude Adams. The film starred Marion Davies and Conrad Nagel and was directed by Sidney Franklin. Prints of this film are preserved at the Library of Congress and in the Turner Archive.
In 2002, the film saw a release onto DVD by the Milestone Films and Video company releasing through Image Entertainment.
There was also a sound film version made in 1937, starring Katharine Hepburn.

Cast

In her 26th film, Marion Davies starred in this romantic drama as a young woman about to be married when the man suddenly goes off to war. Set during the Napoleonic Wars, Davies made her last silent "costume picture." She plays both Phoebe and the invented niece Livvy. This was only the second film in which Davies played an "old and faded" woman. The other was in The Young Diana. Davies won rave reviews, but the film was not a success. It earned the lowest gross receipts of all her MGM silent films.