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Madame du Barry (1928)

Madame du Barry poster
Directed by
Roy William Neill
Genre
silent film
Country
United States
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This is a short silent film that tells a fictionalized version of the life of Madame du Barry, a mistress of King Louis XV of France. It was made as part of a series that dramatized famous historical events.

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What happens

Madame du Barry is a 1928 MGM short silent fictionalized film short in two-color Technicolor. It was the eighth film produced as part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "Great Events" series, and the last to be released before the new year. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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