The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
Starring: Ramón Novarro, Norma Shearer, Jean Hersholt
Director: Ernst Lubitsch, John M. Stahl
Writer: Hanns Kräly
Producer: Irving Thalberg
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg, also known as The Student Prince and Old Heidelberg, is a 1927 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer silent drama film based on the 1901 play Old Heidelberg by Wilhelm Meyer-Förster. It was directed by Ernst Lubitsch, and stars Ramon Novarro and Norma Shearer.
Trivia
- Based on Old Heidelberg (play written by Wilhelm Meyer-Förster).
- Irving Thalberg initially planned to have Erich von Stroheim direct this film as a follow-up to the director's commercial success The Merry Widow.
- Stroheim declined, opting instead to leave MGM and begin work on The Wedding March (1928).
- Thalberg then tried to attach E.A. Dupont, and then John S. Robertson to the project, but both passed on it.
Filming Locations
- Following principal photography, he went to Germany to film establishing shots, none of which were used in the finished movie; what little location work there is in the finished film was shot in Laurel Canyon.
Previous Showings
4 Runs • 2 Festivals
1,285 tickets sold
All runs on record (4):
- January 19, 1992 · 449 ticketsw/ The Merry Widow (1934), Heaven Can Wait
- August 22, 2001 · 409 tickets
- January 21, 2017 · 163 ticketsBritish and Lubitsch
- March 2, 2025 · 264 ticketsLubitsch, Mamoulian, Sternberg Three Great Directorsw/ One Hour with You