Nell Gwyn (1926)

19261h 28mdir. Herbert WilcoxUnited Kingdombiographical filmromance film

With Dorothy Gish, Randle Ayrton, Juliette Compton, Sydney Fairbrother

Directed by Herbert Wilcox

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Nell Gwyn is a 1926 British silent romance film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Dorothy Gish, Randle Ayrton and Juliette Compton. It was based on the 1926 novel Mistress Nell Gwyn by Marjorie Bowen and follows the life of Nell Gwynne, the mistress of Charles II. Wilcox later made a second version of the film in 1934, Nell Gwyn which starred Anna Neagle.

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