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| Tookey's Rating |
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8
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| Average Rating |
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6.78
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| Starring |
Marion Davies  , William Haines,
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Directed by:
King Vidor
Written by:
Wanda Tuchock, Agnes Christine Johnston, Lawrence Stallings
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| Released: |
1928 |
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| Genre: |
SILENT
COMEDY
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| Origin: |
US |
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| Length: |
80 |
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An aspiring actress (Marion Davies, pictured right with William Haines) tries to be a success in Hollywood. |
Reviewed by Chris Tookey
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A revelation, at least to those of us whose view of Marion Davies was coloured by Orson Welles's cruelly satirical portrait in Citizen Kane. This is an amusing, surprisingly sophisticated silent comedy about Hollywood - the leading character is said to be modelled on Gloria Swanson - which shows Davies to be a fine comic actress. What a tragedy that her lover, W. Randolph Hearst, forced her into serious roles beyond her range. The film has extra historical interest, since it has innumerable stars of the period - Charles Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, John Gilbert, etc - in cameo roles. If you weant a corrective to Welles’ view of Davies, try watching Peter Bogdanovich’s The Cat’s Meow, in which Kirsten Dunst gives a highly sympathetic version of her.
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