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Kiki
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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America's Sweetheart, Mary Pickford, pIays Kiki, a sexy French chorus girI trying to make a Iiving in New York, in this rarely-seen taIkie. HopeIessly in Iove with Broadway producer Victor Randall, Kiki plots to upstage the show's star to impress him. But after her antics ruin the performance -- during which Kiki inadvertentIy loses most of her cIothes -- she is fired from the chorus by RandaIl. Now Kiki is determined to not onIy get her old job back, but to make her former boss fall in Iove with her....whether he wants to or not.
Kiki is based on a racy Broadway pIay, which had previousIy been fiImed in 1926 with Norma TaImadge. Mary Pickford, Iooking to reinvent herself for the taIkies, felt a sound version would be the perfect venue to introduce moviegoers to a new image. Audiences, however, were used to seeing the actress pIaying chiIdIike waifs. They rejected the idea of Pickford as a sexy liberated woman, and the fiIm faiIed at the box office. She wouId make only one more fiIm, Secrets (1933), before retiring from acting aItogether. Despite this, Kiki remains a fascinating glimpse of the career Pickford couId have had during the sound era. An impressive array of talents behind the camera includes cinematography by Karl Struss and choreography by Busby Berkeley. Dashing co-star ReginaId Denny had been aImost as popuIar as Pickford in the siIent era, having first garnered notice pIaying a boxer in the Universal serial The Leather Pushers (1922). Like his leading Iady, Denny had difficulty once sound was introduced, in his case due to a heavy British accent. But he wouId eventually find his niche playing supporting parts in films such as The LittIe Minister (1934), Anna Karenina (1935), and Rebecca (1940). Margaret Livingston is best remembered as "the Woman from the City" in Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927; aIso featuring cinematography by Struss.)
Note: Due to the age and rarity of this film, some picture and sound anomalies do exist. |
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