I love this movie!
Marion's send up of Gloria Swanson is hilarious. I also love the commissary scene with William S. Hart and Douglas Fairbanks playing with the silverware while Marion's trying to eat.
I love this film!
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I so agree. I watched this last night (had DVR'd from TCM) and could not take my eyes off of it. Marion Davies was SO funny! I loved when she would purse her mouth and show her teeth...and Williams Haines was great too...he was so handsome and such a great comedic actor.
Needless to say, I did NOT hit *delete* after I watched this one...it's a keeper...
No, no..."cruelty." I always think that has a nobler ring to it.
Pursing her mouth and showing her teeth---that's her Swanson impression. I agree, its hilarious. If you're not familiar with Swanson, check out some pictures of her and you'll see what I mean.
You take that diaper off your head, you put it back on your sister!
The versatile King Vidor's Show People is an extremely clever and innovative screwball comedy and certainly amongst the greatest silent films and it represents the best of it's stars Marion Davies and William Haines. It's also a great insider's peek into Hollywood at the end of the silent era.
shareWas Fairbanks always that dark? Was that a tan? I notice in his IMDB page picture his skin is also really dark. Besides this one, I've never actually seen him in a movie so it's hard to tell.
His son, Fairbanks, Jr., is very fair-haired and with a light complexion so there's no way the father could have been naturally dark-skinned. Is he known for being in black-face? Does anyone know?
Woman, man! That's the way it should be Tarzan. [Tarzan and his mate]
Doug Fairbanks was half-Jewish. His father's last name was Ullman. His Mother was from a wealthy southern Catholic family. She had a string of husbands who either died or abandoned her, including Ullman. She raised the boys under the name Fairbanks, which was one of her previous husband's names. I've read in Fairbanks' memoirs that she did this on purpose to hide her son's Jewish ancestry and constantly fretted about their dark skin, trying to lighten it with lemon juice and such.
Doug Junior's mother was a blonde, blue-eyed Rhode Island heiress. He got her blue eyes but was noted for his constant George Hamilton-esque tan, much like his father.
What have you been reading, the gospel according to St. Bastard?