Irene (1926 film)
Irene is a 1926 American silent romantic comedy film starring Colleen Moore, and partially shot in Technicolor. The film was directed by Alfred E. Green, produced by Moore's husband John McCormick, and based on the musical "Irene" written by James Montgomery with music and lyrics by Harry Tierney and Joseph McCarthy. As reported in the book and documentary film "The Celluloid Closet", actor George K. Arthur plays a flamboyant gay man in the film named "Madame Lucy". Production. The scenes which were shot in Technicolor cost a total amount of $100,000. The total budget of  the film was $1,500,000. This was the fourth of five films, in three years, with Moore and Hughes starring in the lead roles. They also appeared together in "The Huntress" (1923), "Sally" (1925), "The Desert Flower" (1925) and "Ella Cinders" (1926). This was the final film of actress Marion Aye, who started appearing on film in 1919 as one of the uncredited Sennett Bathing Beauties. She continued to work in vaudeville and committed suicide in 1951. Preservation status. The film exists with the Technicolor sequences intact.