"Why be good?" A question with which toddlers have struggled for ages. Maybe more like "Does it pay to appear to be bad."
Here's pert Coleen Moore playing Pert in an interesting relic. The quality of the image, the rolling crowds, the frenetic dancing, the spot-on jazz score are all exceptional. The dialogue (as I read it) is snappy and irreverent. Here we have one extremely lively silent where our toddlers are hyped up spoiled thirty-ish metropolitans.
Pert meets a man she calls Greasy. She points to him as he sits next to her and says to her neighbor on the other side, "Extract of aromas." The bad guy (Greasy) is tremendously sleazy. He has the hairline of Nixon and a partial mustache, and sideburns that point to the bridge of his crooked nose. He won't stop his open mouthed gum chomping for anything. Later Pert is chewing gum, one can only hope it is not the same piece.
With Pert, you're hitting a triple and staying on third. She claims she is "Too hot for this old folks home," but I'm not so sure. A person can be pretty convincing when they pretend enough.
ODDS AND ENDS
The family business employs 200 men and 1000 girls! How big is this store? This means there are five girls for every man. This is a problematic ratio.
It might be the make-up but this Pert appears to have an extraordinarily tiny mouth.
What is she doing with those bracelets? (12:42) I can't really describe it on a family website.
He rubs his hands together when she asks for a ride home. I have yet to see this gesture anywhere but in these old movies.
The mannequin's face seems very "champaign at the polo club" to me. (35:10)
SMOKING RITUAL
As soon as dad enters the party we see a dancing lady holding her cigarette in the left hand she gently rests on her partner's shoulder.
Neil Hamilton is an uninspired smoker. I'm not sure whether or not that's an insult. When he's waiting in his car he takes a puff with a sort of overhand grip with his palm down. This particular move is seen more in films from the 60s.
When dad lectures son about the dangers of broadmindedness the old man is gripping an unlit half smoked cigar. I think he places it somewhere on the dresser. Are those elevated ashtrays?
Here's pert Coleen Moore playing Pert in an interesting relic. The quality of the image, the rolling crowds, the frenetic dancing, the spot-on jazz score are all exceptional. The dialogue (as I read it) is snappy and irreverent. Here we have one extremely lively silent where our toddlers are hyped up spoiled thirty-ish metropolitans.
Pert meets a man she calls Greasy. She points to him as he sits next to her and says to her neighbor on the other side, "Extract of aromas." The bad guy (Greasy) is tremendously sleazy. He has the hairline of Nixon and a partial mustache, and sideburns that point to the bridge of his crooked nose. He won't stop his open mouthed gum chomping for anything. Later Pert is chewing gum, one can only hope it is not the same piece.
With Pert, you're hitting a triple and staying on third. She claims she is "Too hot for this old folks home," but I'm not so sure. A person can be pretty convincing when they pretend enough.
ODDS AND ENDS
The family business employs 200 men and 1000 girls! How big is this store? This means there are five girls for every man. This is a problematic ratio.
It might be the make-up but this Pert appears to have an extraordinarily tiny mouth.
What is she doing with those bracelets? (12:42) I can't really describe it on a family website.
He rubs his hands together when she asks for a ride home. I have yet to see this gesture anywhere but in these old movies.
The mannequin's face seems very "champaign at the polo club" to me. (35:10)
SMOKING RITUAL
As soon as dad enters the party we see a dancing lady holding her cigarette in the left hand she gently rests on her partner's shoulder.
Neil Hamilton is an uninspired smoker. I'm not sure whether or not that's an insult. When he's waiting in his car he takes a puff with a sort of overhand grip with his palm down. This particular move is seen more in films from the 60s.
When dad lectures son about the dangers of broadmindedness the old man is gripping an unlit half smoked cigar. I think he places it somewhere on the dresser. Are those elevated ashtrays?