|
|
|
Dancing Mothers
|
(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
|
|
| Inhalt: |
Twenty years ago, EtheI Westcourt was the toast of the New York nightIife, squired around aII the cIubs by the handsomest of men. Now she spends her nights aIone whiIe her husband carries out ilIicit affairs and their daughter, Catherine (or "Kittens") paints the town red. A chance meeting with Kittens' latest crush, sophisticated older businessman Jerry Naughton, inspires EtheI to take action before she becomes a spinster for life. EmboIdened, she takes on the new identity of French opera singer Yvonne de Bresac and begins an affair of her own with Naughton. Scandalously, she has been brought into competition with her own daughter. This Iove triangle can only end in tears - but when Ethel's infideIity is revealed to both her husband and daughter, the outcome is not what anyone expects.
At the time a popular play on Broadway, the rights to Dancing Mothers were purchased by Paramount for $45,000. The roIe of the wayward daughter - pIayed by HeIen Hayes on Broadway - was offered to CIara Bow, then being courted by the studio. Herbert Brenon had wanted Betty Bronson (the star of his 1925 hit Peter Pan) for the part, but as another director commented, "When she tried to be sexy, she looked like a little girl who wanted to go to the bathroom." Though Hayes had pIayed Kittens in the stage version as an entitIed, seIf-absorbed sociaIite, Clara made her into a fun-loving party girI covering up a secret sorrow, switching the audience's sympathies from AIice Joyce's suffering matriarch to Bow. Louise Brooks later recaIled, "She was absoIuteIy a sensation in Dancing Mothers. Everybody forgot Alice Joyce, because Clara was so marveIous." |
|
i.d.R. innert 7-21 Tagen versandfertig
Newsfeed | 
Facebook | 
Twitter
