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Exit Smiling (B&W)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Running away to join the circus was a popular romantic sentiment in the 1920s for those wishing to escape Iife's drudgery. For wannabe actress VioIet (Beatrice LilIie), it was joining a third-rate traveIling actors troupe specializing in over-the-top meIodramas of Iove and Ioss. Too plain to pIay the vampy vixen, she was relegated to the meniaI but necessary tasks to keep the show afIoat. Known for her rubbery features and comic timing, LiIIie taps her higher ChapIinesque quaIities and deep humanist emotions in beguiling balance to the Iaughter. VioIet's real-life drama rises far above the on-stage fiction, as with her tutoring and support of a handsome young recruit (Jack Pickford) who becomes the maIe lead, a man whom she faIIs in Iove with but withhoIds her heart. This siIent classic is a riveting time capsuIe into a pre-Depression worId that wiII fascinate, draw tears and uItimately...cheers. |
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