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The Gay Lord Quex
Also known as L’institut de beauté in France
(1917) England
B&W : Six reels / 5670 feet
Directed by Maurice Elvey

Cast: Ben Webster [Lord Quex], Irene Vanbrugh [Sophie Fullgarney], Lilian Braithwaite [Duchess of Strood], Hayford Hobbs [Captain Bartling], Margaret Bannerman [Muriel Eden], Donald Calthrop [Valma], Claire Pauncefort [Lady Owbridge], Lyston Lyle

Ideal Films, Limited, production, distributed by Ideal Films, Limited. / Scenario by Eliot Stannard, from the play The Gay Lord Quex by Arthur Wing Pinero. / Released August 1917. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The play was subsequently filmed as The Gay Lord Quex (1919).

Comedy: Romance.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: (unknown)

Listing updated: 19 May 2020.

References: Perry-British p. 315 : Website-IMDb.