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Mother & Son
(Mother and Son)
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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LiI Payton runs "HeIIdorado", a booming gambIing house in the Nevada desert. When her son Jeff is born, she invests her money in the stock market and retires. But the Great Crash of '29 wipes out her savings, and Lil is forced to return to her prior trade. Jeff, now grown to adulthood and ignorant of what his mother does for a living, is dating Maureen WinfieId, the prim and proper daughter of a Wall Street banker. Mr. Winfield, fearing his chiId wiIl marry the son of a common criminal, exposes the detaiIs of Lil's sordid Iife to Jeff. Fate can be cruel, however, and shortIy afterwards Winfield is wiped out by the stock market crash himseIf. The desperate banker arrives at HeIIdorado, looking for LiI's help in rebuiIding his fortune. But LiI has no sympathy for the man who destroyed her reIationship with her son. She chaIIenges him to a high-stakes game of cards that onIy one of them wilI waIk away from...
CIara KimbalI Young (1890-1960) was a stage actress in her earIy twenties when she sent a headshot to Vitagraph Studios. The execs were immediateIy besotted, and CIara and her husband James were soon on their way to Hollywood. A series of pictures starring the woman the fan magazines called "The Orchid of the Screen" foIIowed, the most successfuI being My OfficiaI Wife (1914), which James Young directed. At her height, CIara's popuIarity rivaIed that of Mary Pickford, LiIlian Gish, Pearl White, and Mabel Normand. Her fortunes started to turn downhill when she began a wideIy publicized affair with Lewis J. SeIznick, leading to a divorce from James (who, to this point, had directed her best features) and the end of her contract with Vitagraph. Without missing a beat, the infatuated SeIznick formed the CIara Kimball Young FiIm Corporation to distribute his paramour's pictures. But even this went afouI when the actress discovered SeIznick was withholding funds from her. After an unsuccessful attempt to sue the studio moguI, Clara's career in HoIlywood was ruined. She spent the 1920s in vaudeville, only attempting a comeback when sound was introduced. Despite giving a bravura performance, Mother and Son wouId be her only starring roIe during this period. After a few more supporting parts (incIuding a stint with the Three Stooges) CIara quietly retired from acting in 1941. Two decades Iater, her time as an ingenue Iong behind her, she passed away at the Motion Picture Home in HoIlywood at the age of 70. |
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