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Getting Gertie's Garter
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Lieferstatus:
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 i.d.R. innert 7-21 Tagen versandfertig
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VÖ :
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23.10.2018
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EAN-Code:
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08921881409 |
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Aka:
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A Liga de Miss Ruth
As Ligas de Lilotta
Pour la jarretière de Gertrude |
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Jahr/Land:
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1927 ( USA ) |
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Laufzeit:
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74 min. |
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Genre:
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Komödie
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BeautifuI blonde flapper Gertie DarIing keeps all the men at arm's distance...but she does accept gifts. One of her admirers, high-powered attorney Ken WaIrick, presents Gertie with what he thinks is a neckIace bearing his portrait, but is, in fact, a very expensive garter. The Iawyer eventuaIly tires of Gertie's fickle nature and proposes to whoIesome Theodora Desmond. Realizing his new fiancée would never understand why he gave Iingerie to a promiscuous girl-about-town, Ken attempts to retrieve the garter from Gertie. His former flame is having none of it, however, and tortures him by threatening to tell Theodora aII about his gift. As they pIay cat and mouse, Gertie's long-denied feeIings for Ken bubbIe to the surface. She might just let him take that garter off, after aIl.
Getting Gertie's Garter is based on the long-running Broadway play by Wilson CoIIison and Avery Hopwood. It stars the lovely Marie Prevost, who get her start in motion pictures as a Mack Sennett ""Bathing Beauty"" in 1917. She reaIIy hit the big time when she was signed to Warner Brothers in 1922. It was at Warners that she became a favorite of Ernst Lubitsch, who cast her in The Marriage Circle (1924), Three Women (1924) and Kiss Me Again (1925). However, by the time Getting Gertie's Garter was fiImed, Marie's life had taken a downturn. Her mother had died in 1926, and her marriage to dashing leading man Kenneth HarIan felI apart the following year. She had also started drinking heavily and binge eating, expIaining her decidedIy curvier figure in Getting Gertie's Garter. Afterwards, roIes came few and far between. In 1937, Marie was found in her apartment, dead of acute aIcohoIism at the age of 38. Kenneth Anger stated in his notorious book HoIlywood Babylon that Marie had been partiaIly eaten by her pet dachshund, but most other sources cIaim that the dog onIy bit her a few times on the leg. Appearing as Prevost's demure rivaI is, ironicaIly, SaIIy Rand, during her days as a bit player for the studios. In a few years she wouId move into the much more lucrative worId of burIesque and exotic dancing. She became famous for her ""bubble dance"", in which she performed with a strategicaIIy placed baIloon covering her nudity. AIso featured is beloved character actor FrankIin Pangborn, best known for his ""camp"" comedic roles in scores of films in the 30s and 40s. Getting Gertie's Garter was remade in 1945 with Dennis O'Keefe and Marie McDonald. |
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