The Seven Swans
Cast & Crew
J. Searle Dawley
Marguerite Clark
William Danforth
Augusta Anderson
Edwin Dennison
Daisy Belmore
Film Details
Synopsis
Determined to take over the kingdom of the Seven Dials, the Queen of the Bouncing Ball, with the aid of the witch, transforms the seven princes of the kingdom into swans and leads them far away from court. Learning from the moon fairies of her brothers' fate, Princess Tweedledee finds the swans and resolves to stay with them. She is seen by Prince Charming who falls madly in love with her. Soon after, the moon fairies reappear and tell her that she can change her brothers back to human form if she will weave seven robes of nettle and cover the swans with them. One condition, though, is that she not speak to any human being during this time, a condition which perplexes the prince when she refuses to talk to him. Finding that her enforced dumbness is about to lose her the love of the prince, she returns to her native land where she is accused of being a witch and sentenced to death. At the last minute, she is rescued by Prince Charming and the seven swans who, when she throws the hastily finished robes over them, regain their human form.
Director
J. Searle Dawley
Cast
Marguerite Clark
William Danforth
Augusta Anderson
Edwin Dennison
Daisy Belmore
Richard Barthelmess
Richard Allen
Jere Austin
Joseph Sterling
Frederick Merrick
Lee F. Daly
Stanley King
Gordon Dana
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Notes
The film had its premiere on Christmas Day 1917 in New York. The 1953 German puppet film The Seven Ravens, made by the Diehl Bros., is based on a Grimm Brothers fairy tale that is similar in plot to this story.
