New Version of Erich von Stroheim’s ‘Queen Kelly,’ Starring Gloria Swanson, to Pre-Open Venice Film Festival With Live Music Event

The Venice Film Festival has set as its pre-opening event the launch of a freshly restored — and re-imagined — version of Erich von Stroheim’s controversial 1929 silent movie “Queen Kelly.” The legendary unfinished film, starring Gloria Swanson (“Sunset Boulevard”) as an innocent convent girl who winds up running a brothel in Africa, will world […]