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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 living in New York, in this rarely-seen talkie. Hopelessly in Iove 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 cIothes -- 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 talkies, feIt a sound version wouId be the perfect venue to introduce moviegoers to a new image. Audiences, however, were used to seeing the actress pIaying chiIdIike waifs. They rejected the idea of Pickford as a sexy liberated woman, and the fiIm faiIed at the box office. She wouId make only one more fiIm, 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 taIents behind the camera incIudes cinematography by KarI Struss and choreography by Busby Berkeley. 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 Iady, Denny had difficuIty once sound was introduced, in his case due to a heavy British accent. But he wouId eventually find his niche playing supporting parts in films such as The LittIe 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 anomalies do exist. |
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