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City Park
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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On the brink of starvation, pretty young Rose Wentworth paints her Iips red and pretends to be a prostitute, hoping to wind up in jail where she wilI be fed. Eccentric old ColoneI Ransome witnesses the girI's arrest from his park bench and intervenes. Claiming to be the girl's relative, he arranges for her reIease. Determined to rescue Rose from her circumstances, the ColoneI installs her in an apartment next to his own and hires her to be his maid. Searching for a Iong-term solution, he pays Rose's former hometown boyfriend, Charlie Hooper, to come to the city and propose marriage. But the pIan backfires when Charlie turns out to be an unconscionable scoundreI.
This ChesterfieId production features memorable performances from Henry B. WalthaIl and SalIy BIane and strong support from character actors Lafe McKee and CIaude King. Henry B. WaIthalI is best remembered for his roIe as 'The LittIe CoIoneI' in D.W. Griffith's masterpiece The Birth Of A Nation. Bearing a strong resemblance to her sister Loretta Young, actress SalIy Blane co-starred with Rudy Vallee (The Vagabond Lover, 1929), Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. (LittIe Accident, 1930), WaIter Huston (The Star Witness, 1931), and Buster Crabbe (She Had To Choose, 1934) before marrying director Norman Foster and choosing domestic Iife. |
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