A chorus girl with marital woes is pursued by a gangster.A chorus girl with marital woes is pursued by a gangster.A chorus girl with marital woes is pursued by a gangster.
- Ruthie Day
- (as Mary Koran)
- Policeman
- (uncredited)
- Hood
- (uncredited)
- Party Guest
- (uncredited)
- Detective
- (uncredited)
- Al Jolson - Cameo
- (uncredited)
- Waiter
- (uncredited)
- Policeman
- (uncredited)
- Party Guest
- (uncredited)
- Cop
- (uncredited)
- Count
- (uncredited)
- Party Guest
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
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Storyline
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- GoofsBefore putting a pot of coffee on the stove, Jill uses a wooden match to light the burner, while never once looking at the match. She shakes the match to put it out, but it flares up again as she drops it on top of a cabinet next to the stove. She then puts the coffee pot on the burner and walks off camera to look out the window.
- Quotes
Jill Deverne: [Norma Talmadge's first line of spoken dialogue on film - said down a dumbwaiter shaft to who she thinks is the iceman] Twenty-five pounds. And don't give my chunk a twice-over shave.
Joe Prividi: [said up the dumbwaiter shaft after sending up a stolen box of flowers with a note for her birthday] Good morning, Jill.
Jill Deverne: Good morning, Mr. Prividi.
Joe Prividi: Mrs. Deverne, as I wished ya' wasn't.
Jill Deverne: You stop this silly flower business! Do you hear me?
Joe Prividi: Why? It's your boithday, ain' it, huh?
Jill Deverne: Well, who told you to celebrate it?
Joe Prividi: My heart, darling. My heart.
Jill Deverne: Well, shut it off, or my husband might plug it for you.
Joe Prividi: [laughing] That's not his racket. That piano player couldn't plug nothin' but a song.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Hollywood and the Stars: The Wild and Wonderful Thirties (1964)
The film is famous as one of Norma Talmadge's flop talkie attempts but it's not bad at all and is a better film than her 1930 attempt (and final film) as Madame DuBarry.
Talmadge plays a show girl married to a song writer (Gilbert Roland) but everyone is involved in the Broadway night life and endless parties. Plus Talmadge is being pursued by a gangster. Talmadge leaves her husband after he spends the night with a floozie. She ends up as the gangster's moll but soon gets tired of the life.
She runs into Roland (on the skids) later and tries to rekindle her relationship but as they attempt to leave wicked NYC for the country they get involved in a botched gangland murder.
This film proves that Talmadge had a perfectly good voice (she even sings a little), not overly trained and unnatural as she was as DuBarry. She's also pretty good in a the part and it's fascinating to finally see this great star in a "modern" role. Roland isn't bad as the husband and has surprisingly little accent.
Lilyan Tashman is Norma's pal, Roscoe Karns in the music partner, John Wray is the gangster, Mary Doran is the floozie, Jean Harlow has a bit part as a party guest, and Al Jolson makes a cameo and sings a song but it's all cut from the short version of this film that I have.
Another curiosity from the transition era. Why would this film have flopped?
- drednm
- Nov 19, 2006
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- Buhranlı geceler
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- Runtime1 hour 22 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.20 : 1