PRETTY LADIES
Sog., Scen.: Alice D.G. Miller, Joseph Farnham (didascalie); F.: Ira H. Morgan; Scgf.: James Basevi, Cedric Gibbons; Int.: ZaSu Pitts (Maggie Keenan), Tom Moore (Al Cassidy), Ann Pennington, Lilyan Tashman (Selma Larson), Bernard Randall (Aaron Savage), Helena D’Algy (Adrienne), Conrad Nagel (Dream Lover), Norma Shearer (Frances White), George K. Arthur (Roger Van Horn), Joan Crawford (Lucille Le Sueur, una soubrette), Paul Ellis (Warren Hadley), Roy D’Arcy (Paul Thompson), Gwen Lee (Fay), Dorothy Seastrom (Diamond Tights), Lew Harvey (Will Rogers), Chad Huber (Frisco), Walter Shumway (Sig. Gallagher), Dan Crimmins (Sig. Shean), James Quinn (Eddie Cantor); Prod.: Metro-Goldwyn Pictures 35 mm. L.: 1480 m. D.: 59′ a 20 f/s Bn.
Film Notes
A splendidly sleazy view of theatrical fife, unusually daring in that the man commits adultery and gets away with it. The girl, a Christian Scientist, refuses to believe God would allow such a thing to happen to her and her baby, and so never mentions it. While admittedly no more than a superior programme picture, it has much to recommend it – superb photography a fine performance from ZaSu Pitts, backed up by Lucille Le Sueur (Joan Crawford), Lilyan Tashman and the delicious Gwen Lee. Conrad Nagel plays ZaSu’s dream lover who has to be pushed into a closet when a real man comes home. The excellent print is, alas, missing the Technicolor sequence, all of Norma Shearer and several stage scenes.
Kevin Brownlow