The King on Main Street| image = Magazine advertisement for The King on Main Street starring Adolphe Menjou.jpg| caption = Magazine advertisement| director = Monta Bell| producer = Adolph Zukor Jesse L. Lasky| writer = Monta Bell (adaptation)Douglas Zoty (scenario)

* Adolphe Menjou

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1925

25|U.S.}}| runtime = 60 minutes| country = United States

Silent film>Silent (English intertitles)}}The King on Main Street, also known as The King, is a 1925 American silent romantic comedy film directed by Monta Bell and starring Adolphe Menjou and Bessie Love. The film was adapted for the screen by Bell, and was based on the play The King, Leo Ditrichstein’s adaptation of the 1908 French play Le Roi by Gaston Arman de Caillavet, Robert de Flers, and Emmanuel ArÃ¨ne. It was produced by Famous Playersâ€“Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures.The King on Main Street includes two sequences filmed in early two-strip Technicolor.NEWS, Pardy, George T., November 7, 1925, The King on Main Street,archive.org/stream/motionpicturenew00moti_10#page/2168/, Motion Picture News, These sequences, along with a print of the film, still exist.WEB,www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/K/KingOnMainStreet1925.html, Progressive Silent Film List: The King on Main Street, Silent Era, Bennett, Carl, March 21, 2015, The film is in the public domain and is available on the Internet Archive.{{Internet Archive|BillSpragueCollectionTHeKingOnMainStreet-KODASCOPE|The King on Main Street}}

Plot

(File:The King on Main Street (SAYRE 14228).jpg|thumb|262x262px|Adolphe Menjou, Bessie Love and Oscar Shaw in The King on Main Street )King Serge IV of Molvania (Menjou) comes to Manhattan to conduct business with Arthur Trent (Kilgour), but instead goes to Coney Island, where he meets Gladys Humphreys (Love) and John Rockland (Shaw). John, not knowing the king’s royal identity, invites him to his home at Little Falls, New Jersey. The king falls in love with Gladys, but Trent catches them in a compromising situation, and blackmails the king into completing their business deal. The king leaves the United States and Gladys forever.NEWS, Amusements: Bessie Love at State, Reading Eagle, November 14, 1925,news.google.com/newspapers?id=mZAhAAAAIBAJ&pg=4347,3103206, NEWS, Very Interesting Romance Unfolded in Story in Which Famous Star Appears at Colonial for Two Days, Bluefield Daily Telegraph, Bluefield, West Virginia, November 8, 1925, 8, BOOK, The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films 1921â€“1930, Munden, Kenneth W., R.R. Bowker, R.R. Bowker Company, New York, 1971, 664500075, 406â€“7,archive.org/details/americanfilminst00amer, registration, BOOK,archive.org/details/descriptivecatal05koda, 187, Descriptive Catalogue of Kodascope Library Motion Pictures, 1932, New York, Kodascope Libraries, Inc.,

Cast

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Bessie Love as Gladys Humphreys
Adolphe Menjou as King Serge IV of Molvania
Greta Nissen as Therese Manix
Oscar Shaw as John Rockland
Joseph Kilgour as Arthur Trent
Edgar Norton as Hugo Jensen
Mario Majeroni as Count Krenko
Carlotta Monterey as Mrs. Nash
Marcia Harris as Aunt Tabitha Young
Edouard Durand as Bourdier
Lois Wilson as Guest in Lobby (uncredited)
Jack La Rue as One of the King’s Servants in Paris (uncredited)

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Production

The film was partially filmed on location in New York, New Jersey, and Coney Island.{{citation|url=https://www.nyu.edu/projects/wke/notes/huff/huff_641124.htm|work=The Theodore Huff Memorial Film Society|title=1925: Two Sophisticated Comedies|date=November 24, 1964|first=William K.|last=Everson |author1-link=William K. Everson}}Bessie Love’s performance of the Charleston in this film popularized the dance within the United States.NEWS, The Harvard Crimson, Crimson Playgoer: The Metropolitan Opens its Doors to an Unlimited Public and a Very Fair Opening Attraction, October 21, 1925,www.thecrimson.com/article/1925/10/21/crimson-playgoer-pwith-the-coming-of/, MAGAZINE, Theatre Magazine, The King on Main Street, January 1926,

Reception

The film did well at the box office, particularly in small town America.

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{{IMDb title|0015976|The King on Main Street}}
{{AllMovie title|27460|The King on Main Street}}
{{AFI film|10085|The King on Main Street}}
{{Tcmdb title|496622|The King on Main Street}}

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{{Internet Archive|BillSpragueCollectionTHeKingOnMainStreet-KODASCOPE|The King on Main Street}}
{{YouTube|y2zOTB15e90|Clip from The King on Main Street featuring Bessie Love’s Charleston}}

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