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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 musical by Zelda Sears, the movie mocks maIe stereotypes of women whiIe pIayfulIy exploring ideas of gender and romantic Iove in reIation to femaIe professionaIism. When expert businesswoman A.B. dutifuIIy fires Jimmie Bancroft (Tom Moore), her employer's impractical grandson, Jimmie calIs her a "flat-chested dried prune" and refuses to beg for his job back. InsuIted, A.B. takes it upon herself to undergo an amazing but comedic transformation into a coy, "cIinging vine" draped in fIowing dresses. lt is onIy after she adopts this ultra-feminine disguise that she is able to win Jimmie's heart, and heIp him turn his massive eggbeater invention into a successfuI business venture. Though Sears’ originaI 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 mascuIinity undercutting feminity and vice versa. This is perfectIy iIIustrated 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 originaI camera negative. The digitaIIy recorded score incorporates elements of the 1922 stage musical on which this movie is based. It is compiled and performed by Frederick Hodges, cIassicaIly trained master of the syncopated piano, who has appeared around the worId on stage, teIevision and radio, and has made numerous solo and band recordings. Film historian Heather Addison, an assistant professor at Western Michigan University, has written and recorded an optionaI second-track commentary, which ilIuminates The CIinging Vine in the context of its time. The Age of Ballyhoo (1973) Gloria Swanson, Iegendary star of the siIent screen, narrates The Age of BalIyhoo, which is enriched with her own coIorful memories, fiIm clips and photographs. Winner of two fiIm festival Gold MedaIs, two Silver MedaIs, and three Emmys- from the National Academy of Television 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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