SUN MAR 1, 2026 2:00 PM

QUEEN KELLY

$12.00 (member) ; $17.00 (general admission)

Ticket prices include a $2.00 online booking fee.

Egyptian Theatre | L.A. Premiere of New 4K Restoration

‘Sunday “Rest”orations’

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  • RELEASED IN: 1929
  • 105 MINUTES
  • DIRECTED BY: Erich von Stroheim

ABOUT THE FILM: 

QUEEN KELLY opens in the imaginary European country of Cobourg-Nassau, sometime before the first World War, where the vain and cruel Queen Regina V (Seena Owen) obsesses over her feckless fiancé (Walter Byron), Prince “Wild” Wolfram. When the dissolute prince encounters an innocent but flirtatious convent girl, Patricia Kelly (Gloria Swanson), he falls in love. Desperate to see her before his upcoming wedding to the Queen, he kidnaps Kelly and brings her to his rooms in the palace. When the Queen discovers the lovers, she whips the nightgowned girl and throws her out into the night. After an unsuccessful suicide attempt, Kelly returns to the convent, where she receives a telegram, summoning her to the bedside of her dying aunt (Florence Gibson) in Dar-es-Salaam, German East Africa. There, the innocent young girl is shocked to find herself in a seedy bordello. On her deathbed, Kelly’s aunt begs her niece to wed the syphilitic brothel owner, Jan (Tully Marshall).

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Kino Lorber

COUNTRY: USA