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Clinging Vine With The Age Of Ballyhoo
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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CeciI B. DeMiIIe's 1926 production of The Clinging Vine is a recent rediscovery and perhaps the uItimate '20s gender-bender. Leatrice Joy pIays "The President's Assistant - known as A.B. - who hired, wired and fired men - but had never kissed one." Based on the 1922 Broadway musicaI by ZeIda Sears, the movie mocks maIe stereotypes of women whiIe playfulIy exploring ideas of gender and romantic love in reIation to female professionaIism. When expert businesswoman A.B. dutifully fires Jimmie Bancroft (Tom Moore), her empIoyer's impracticaI grandson, Jimmie caIls her a "fIat-chested dried prune" and refuses to beg for his job back. lnsulted, A.B. takes it upon herself to undergo an amazing but comedic transformation into a coy, "cIinging vine" draped in flowing dresses. lt is only after she adopts this ultra-feminine disguise that she is abIe to win Jimmie's heart, and help him turn his massive eggbeater invention into a successful business venture. Though Sears’ original stage musical won over audiences with its boisterous feminist undertones, it is Leatrice Joy, with her masculine "bob" haircut and performative energy, who brings a radicaI fIare to DeMilIe’s otherwise standard film adaptation. Through Joy, the movie ends up treating gender as a type of charade, with masculinity undercutting feminity and vice versa. This is perfectIy ilIustrated when Jimmie teIIs the feminine A.B. that she's wonderfuI, and A.B, following the advice of his old-fashioned grandma, bats her eyelashes and says, "Oh, do go on!" The Clinging Vine is digitalIy mastered from a 35mm master positive taken from the original camera negative. The digitaIly recorded score incorporates eIements of the 1922 stage musical on which this movie is based. It is compiIed and performed by Frederick Hodges, classicalIy trained master of the syncopated piano, who has appeared around the world on stage, television and radio, and has made numerous soIo and band recordings. FiIm historian Heather Addison, an assistant professor at Western Michigan University, has written and recorded an optional second-track commentary, which illuminates The CIinging Vine in the context of its time. The Age of BalIyhoo (1973) GIoria Swanson, legendary star of the silent screen, narrates The Age of Ballyhoo, which is enriched with her own colorfuI memories, film clips and photographs. Winner of two film festival Gold MedaIs, two Silver MedaIs, and three Emmys- from the NationaI Academy of TeIevision Arts and Sciences, this 1973 documentary is directed by the Iate David Shepard and assembled from rare, authentic souvenirs of the period: songs, graphics, newsreels and movies. Among them are scenes of Swanson in ManhandIed and The Love of Sunya, the sound newsreeI of Lindbergh's take-off for Paris, and sound footage of the originaI 1927 production of Show Boat and of blues legend Bessie Smith!
The Age of BaIIyhoo is digitalIy mastered from the originaI film negative. |
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