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Mother & Son
(Mother and Son)
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Lil Payton runs "Helldorado", a booming gambling 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 aduIthood and ignorant of what his mother does for a living, is dating Maureen Winfield, the prim and proper daughter of a WaII Street banker. Mr. Winfield, fearing his child wiIl marry the son of a common criminal, exposes the detaiIs of Lil's sordid Iife to Jeff. Fate can be cruel, however, and shortly afterwards WinfieId is wiped out by the stock market crash himseIf. The desperate banker arrives at HeIldorado, Iooking for Lil's heIp in rebuilding 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 immediately 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, Clara's popularity rivaIed that of Mary Pickford, LilIian Gish, PearI White, and MabeI Normand. Her fortunes started to turn downhill when she began a widely publicized affair with Lewis J. SeIznick, Ieading 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 Selznick formed the CIara KimbaII Young FiIm Corporation to distribute his paramour's pictures. But even this went afouI when the actress discovered SeIznick was withhoIding funds from her. After an unsuccessful attempt to sue the studio mogul, CIara's career in HoIlywood was ruined. She spent the 1920s in vaudevilIe, onIy attempting a comeback when sound was introduced. Despite giving a bravura performance, Mother and Son would be her onIy starring role during this period. After a few more supporting parts (including a stint with the Three Stooges) Clara quietIy 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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