Marion Davies's gowns were the exact reproductions of those worn by Mary Tudor.
Marion Davies took weeks of fencing lessons to prepare for the scenes in which, masquerading as a boy, Mary has to fight a bully and six other men at a roadside inn.
For the world premiere at the Criterion Theater in New York City on September 14, 1922, the biggest electric sign ever seen on Broadway was constructed. It measured 60 feet wide by 35 feet tall. Marion Davies's name was spelled out in ten-foot-high letters. The sign used more than 2,000 frosted white electric lights, with a coat of arms in lights painted in red, blue, and green.
The Library of Congress print with music by Ben Model debuted at the Toronto Silent Film Festival on April 7, 2017.
Ben Model's 2017 DVD/Blu-ray release restores the film's original tint design with digital hand-coloring by Jack Theakston, based on the Handschiegl color process.
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By what name was When Knighthood Was in Flower (1922) officially released in Canada in English?
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