The painter Burne-Jones and his famed painting "The Beggar Maid" are depicted in this speculative drama about the creation of the painting. Burne-Jones plays matchmaker for a young British nobleman who has fallen in love with a servant girl on his estate.

Reginald Denny, Arthur Maude
United States

Torchlight scrapes across oak panels; shadows jitter like gossip. That first glimpse of The Beggar Maid feels less like entering a film than trespassing a half-remembered Pre-Raphaelite hallucination. Reginald Denny—who also co-wrote—casts himself as the love-struck earl with the fervor of a man decoding hieroglyphs ...

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Herbert Blaché

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" Torchlight scrapes across oak panels; shadows jitter like gossip. That first glimpse of The Beggar Maid feels less like entering a film than trespassing a half-remembered Pre-Raphaelite hallucination. Reginald Denny—who also co-wrote—casts himself as the love-struck earl with the fervor of a man decoding hieroglyphs in heartbeats. Opposite him, Mary Astor, barely twenty yet already carrying storms behind the eyes, plays the servant girl as though humility were merely a silk cloak she could shr..."


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