{"id":9913,"global_id":"www.speedmuseum.org?id=9913","global_id_lineage":["www.speedmuseum.org?id=9913"],"author":"2","status":"publish","date":"2025-12-23 12:53:18","date_utc":"2025-12-23 17:53:18","modified":"2025-12-23 12:53:18","modified_utc":"2025-12-23 17:53:18","url":"https:\/\/www.speedmuseum.org\/event\/queen-kelly-at-speed-cinema\/","rest_url":"https:\/\/www.speedmuseum.org\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/events\/9913","title":"Queen Kelly at Speed Cinema","description":"

New 4K Reconstruction<\/strong><\/p>\n

Queen Kelly<\/em><\/strong>
\nDirected by Erich von Stroheim<\/strong><\/p>\n

Saturday, January 31, 3 pm |\u00a0BUY TICKETS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

$12 | $8 Speed members<\/strong><\/p>\n

Queen Kelly<\/em>\u00a0should have been a dream collaboration \u2014 a glamorous world-famous movie star (Gloria Swanson) and her financier lover (Joseph P. Kennedy) hire the most celebrated director of the time (Erich von Stroheim) to make a groundbreaking independent film. Instead,\u00a0Queen Kelly<\/em>\u00a0was canceled mid-production. The movie \u2014 which was shot in sequence \u2014 was shut down by Swanson after just a few of the scandalous African sequences were filmed. The unfinished\u00a0Queen Kelly<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 like Erich von Stroheim\u2019s desecrated\u00a0Greed<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 became Hollywood legend. Basing his reconstruction on von Stroheim\u2019s original scripts, Milestone Films\u2019 Dennis Doros has employed multiple techniques to recreate the film\u2019s d\u00e9nouement.<\/p>\n

Queen Kelly<\/em>\u00a0opens 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 fianc\u00e9, \u201cWild\u201d Prince Wolfram (Walter Byron). 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, Wolfram kidnaps Kelly and brings her to his rooms in the palace. When the Queen discovers the lovers, she whips the young girl and throws her out into the night, clad only in her night gown. 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 girl is shocked to find herself in a seedy bordello. On her deathbed, Kelly\u2019s aunt begs her niece to wed the brothel\u2019s syphilitic owner, Jan Vryheid (Tully Marshall). 1929, U.S., 4K DCP, 105 minutes.<\/p>\n

On the Restoration\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

In 1985, when Kino International (with Dennis Doros as the novice archivist) released the first \u201cnew\u201d edition of\u00a0Queen Kelly<\/em>, it was promoted as a \u201crestoration of Erich von Stroheim\u2019s lost masterwork.\u201d Recognizing that the restoration of a film that was never completed is an impossibility, Doros calls his 2025 work on\u00a0Queen Kelly<\/em>, a \u201creconstruction\u201d \u2014 an improved re-imagining of what von Stroheim\u2019s completed film could have looked like.<\/p>\n

Award-winning composer Eli Denson\u2019s beautiful new score adds to the film\u2019s romance, humor, and drama.<\/p>\n

Milestone is grateful for the participation of George Eastman Museum (primary source), the Library of Congress National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, the Harry Ransom Center, the Margaret Herrick Library, Paramount Pictures, and the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum for providing the original nitrate 35mm materials, photographs, and papers to used create this new version. Milestone also thanks Metropolis Post in New York for digitally timing, stabilizing, and removing dust and scratches.<\/p>","excerpt":"","slug":"queen-kelly-at-speed-cinema","image":{"url":"https:\/\/www.speedmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/QK3.jpg","id":9910,"extension":"jpg","width":1200,"height":927,"filesize":117425,"sizes":{"medium":{"width":960,"height":742,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":85505,"url":"https:\/\/www.speedmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/QK3-960x742.jpg"},"thumbnail":{"width":150,"height":150,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":4720,"url":"https:\/\/www.speedmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/QK3-150x150.jpg"},"medium_large":{"width":768,"height":593,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":60417,"url":"https:\/\/www.speedmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/QK3-768x593.jpg"},"image-480":{"width":480,"height":371,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":25760,"url":"https:\/\/www.speedmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/QK3-480x371.jpg"},"image-640":{"width":640,"height":494,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":43012,"url":"https:\/\/www.speedmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/QK3-640x494.jpg"},"image-720":{"width":720,"height":556,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":53807,"url":"https:\/\/www.speedmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/QK3-720x556.jpg"},"image-960":{"width":960,"height":742,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":96595,"url":"https:\/\/www.speedmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/QK3-960x742.jpg"},"image-1168":{"width":1168,"height":902,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":107500,"url":"https:\/\/www.speedmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/QK3-1168x902.jpg"}}},"all_day":false,"start_date":"2026-01-31 15:00:00","start_date_details":{"year":"2026","month":"01","day":"31","hour":"15","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"end_date":"2026-01-31 16:30:00","end_date_details":{"year":"2026","month":"01","day":"31","hour":"16","minutes":"30","seconds":"00"},"utc_start_date":"2026-01-31 20:00:00","utc_start_date_details":{"year":"2026","month":"01","day":"31","hour":"20","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"utc_end_date":"2026-01-31 21:30:00","utc_end_date_details":{"year":"2026","month":"01","day":"31","hour":"21","minutes":"30","seconds":"00"},"timezone":"America\/Kentucky\/Louisville","timezone_abbr":"EST","cost":"","cost_details":{"currency_symbol":"$","currency_code":"USD","currency_position":"prefix","values":[]},"website":"","show_map":true,"show_map_link":true,"hide_from_listings":false,"sticky":false,"featured":false,"categories":[{"name":"Cinema","slug":"cinema","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":30,"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","description":"","parent":0,"count":179,"filter":"raw","term_order":"9","id":30,"urls":{"self":"https:\/\/www.speedmuseum.org\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/categories\/30","collection":"https:\/\/www.speedmuseum.org\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/categories"}}],"tags":[],"venue":[],"organizer":[],"custom_fields":[],"json_ld":{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Event","name":"Queen Kelly at Speed Cinema","description":"<p>New 4K Reconstruction Queen Kelly Directed by Erich von Stroheim Saturday, January 31, 3 pm |\u00a0BUY TICKETS $12 | $8 Speed members Queen Kelly\u00a0should have been a dream collaboration \u2014 […]<\/p>\\n","image":"https:\/\/www.speedmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/QK3.jpg","url":"https:\/\/www.speedmuseum.org\/event\/queen-kelly-at-speed-cinema\/","eventAttendanceMode":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OfflineEventAttendanceMode","eventStatus":"https:\/\/schema.org\/EventScheduled","startDate":"2026-01-31T15:00:00-05:00","endDate":"2026-01-31T16:30:00-05:00","performer":"Organization"},"is_virtual":false,"virtual_url":null,"virtual_video_source":""}