Into Her Kingdom

Into Her Kingdom is a 1926 American silent romantic drama film directed by Svend Gade and starring Corinne Griffith. The film, which dramatizes the Russian Revolution, featured a Technicolor sequence. It was based on a 1925 short story of the same name by Ruth Comfort Mitchell, originally published in Red Book Magazine. It is not known whether the film currently survives.

Cast

Corinne Griffith as Grand Duchess Tatiana at 12 and 20
Einar Hanson as Stepan, Son of a Peasant at 14 and 22)
Claude Gillingwater as Ivan, Their Tutor
Charles Crockett as Senov, A Carnival Fakir
Evelyn Selbie as Stepan's Mother
Larry Fisher as A Farmhand
H.C. Simmons as Czar Nicholas
Ellinor Vanderveer as Czarina
Byron Sage as Zarevitch
Tom Murray as Bolshevik Guard
Marcelle Corday as Tatiana's Maid
Michael Pleschkoff as Court Chamberlain
Max Davidson as Shoestring Salesman
Allan Sears as American Customer
Mary Louise Miller as Daughter of Stepan and Tatiana
Theodore Lodi as Russian Officer and Court Leader
Alexander Ikonnikov as Russian Officer and Court Leader
Nicholas Bogomoletz as Russian Officer and Court Leader
George Blagoi as Russian Officer and Court Leader
Gene Walski as Russian Officer and Court Leader
Feodor Chaliapin Jr. as Russian Officer and Court Leader
George Davis as Russian Officer and Court Leader

Production

This was the second to last directorial effort of Svend Gade in the United States before returning to Denmark. At the time of production, several expatriate members of the Czarist Russian nobility and military class were living in the Los Angeles area and working as extras in films. Some were recruited to serves as cast members and technical advisors on this film. In a Technicolor insert, running 221 feet, the Weaver of Fate picks out multicolored cords and plays tricks with them. The red cord represents the girl and the brown cord represents the boy.