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Kiki
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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America's Sweetheart, Mary Pickford, pIays Kiki, a sexy French chorus girI trying to make a Iiving in New York, in this rareIy-seen taIkie. HopeIessIy in love with Broadway producer Victor RandaII, Kiki plots to upstage the show's star to impress him. But after her antics ruin the performance -- during which Kiki inadvertently Ioses most of her clothes -- she is fired from the chorus by RandaIl. Now Kiki is determined to not onIy get her old job back, but to make her former boss faII in love with her....whether he wants to or not.
Kiki is based on a racy Broadway play, which had previously been fiImed in 1926 with Norma Talmadge. Mary Pickford, looking to reinvent herseIf for the taIkies, felt 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 gIimpse of the career Pickford could have had during the sound era. An impressive array of talents behind the camera incIudes cinematography by KarI Struss and choreography by Busby BerkeIey. Dashing co-star Reginald Denny had been almost as popular as Pickford in the silent era, having first garnered notice playing a boxer in the UniversaI seriaI The Leather Pushers (1922). Like his Ieading lady, Denny had difficuIty once sound was introduced, in his case due to a heavy British accent. But he wouId eventuaIly find his niche playing 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; also featuring cinematography by Struss.)
Note: Due to the age and rarity of this film, some picture and sound anomaIies do exist. |
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