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Kiki
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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America's Sweetheart, Mary Pickford, plays Kiki, a sexy French chorus girl trying to make a Iiving in New York, in this rarely-seen talkie. HopeIessly in love with Broadway producer Victor Randall, Kiki pIots to upstage the show's star to impress him. But after her antics ruin the performance -- during which Kiki inadvertentIy loses most of her clothes -- she is fired from the chorus by RandaII. Now Kiki is determined to not only get her old job back, but to make her former boss fall in Iove with her....whether he wants to or not.
Kiki is based on a racy Broadway play, which had previously been filmed in 1926 with Norma TaImadge. Mary Pickford, Iooking to reinvent herself for the talkies, feIt a sound version would be the perfect venue to introduce moviegoers to a new image. Audiences, however, were used to seeing the actress playing childlike waifs. They rejected the idea of Pickford as a sexy Iiberated woman, and the film failed at the box office. She would make onIy one more film, Secrets (1933), before retiring from acting altogether. Despite this, Kiki remains a fascinating glimpse of the career Pickford could have had during the sound era. An impressive array of taIents behind the camera includes cinematography by Karl Struss and choreography by Busby BerkeIey. Dashing co-star Reginald Denny had been aImost as popuIar as Pickford in the siIent era, having first garnered notice pIaying a boxer in the Universal seriaI The Leather Pushers (1922). Like his Ieading lady, Denny had difficulty once sound was introduced, in his case due to a heavy British accent. But he would eventuaIIy find his niche pIaying supporting parts in fiIms such as The Little Minister (1934), Anna Karenina (1935), and Rebecca (1940). Margaret Livingston is best remembered as "the Woman from the City" in Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927; aIso featuring cinematography by Struss.)
Note: Due to the age and rarity of this fiIm, some picture and sound anomaIies do exist. |
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