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''The Courtship of Miles Standish'' is a 1923 American silent epic historical romantic drama film produced by and starring Charles Ray, Enid Bennett, and E. Alyn Warren. Directed by Frederick Arthur Sullivan, the film is based on the famous Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1858 poem ''The Courtship of Miles Standish''. No known prints of the film exist and it is now presumed lost.〔( ''The Courtship of Miles Standish'' at SilentEra )〕 ==Background and production== Actor Charles Ray had risen to fame in the mid to late 1910s playing young wholesome farm boys in silent comedy films directed by Thomas H. Ince for Paramount Pictures. At one point, he was earning $11,000 a week.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Hollywood Star Walk: Charles Ray )〕 He left Paramount in 1920 after Adolph Zukor reportedly refused to give him a substantial raise, and formed his own production company, Charles Ray Productions.〔 The company produced several fairly successful comedy films from 1920 to 1922. Ray then decided to produce a film that was a departure from his earlier work and would feature him in the role of a romantic leading man.〔 Against the advice of producers and friends, Ray chose to make a historical epic costume drama based on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1858 narrative poem ''The Courtship of Miles Standish''. After failing secure financial backing from a major studio, Ray put up $500,000 of his own money to fund the project. The film was shot in part at the Charles Ray Studio located on Sunset Boulevard (now known as the KCET Studios) in Los Angeles which Ray purchased around 1922. On one of the studio's sound stages, Ray had a 180-ton rocking replica of the ''Mayflower'' built that cost a reported $65,000 (approximately $ today). Other sequences were shot in Lake Arrowhead, California where Ray had three full sized log cabins built for exterior shots. By the end of filming, Ray had spent over $1,000,000 of his own money and the film's budget reportedly rose to $3,000,000. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Courtship of Miles Standish (1923 film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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