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The Clinging Vine / The Age of Ballyhoo (1926)
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| Starring: | Gloria Swanson, Leatrice Joy, Tom Moore, Robert Edeson, Snitz Edwards, Toby Claude, Dell Henderson |
| Director: | David Shepard, Paul Sloane |
| Genre: | Documentary, Silent, Comedy |
| Year: | 1926 |
| Studio: | Image Entertainment |
| Length: | 122 minutes |
| Released: | May 23, 2006 |
| Rating: | NR |
| Format: | DVD |
| Misc: | NTSC, Black & White |
| Language: | English(Original Language) |
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SYNOPSIS:Cecil B. De Mille's production of The Clinging Vine (1926, 71 min) is a recent rediscovery and perhaps the ultimate Twenties gender-bender. Leatrice Joy plays "The President's Assistant - known as A. B. - who hired, wired and fired men - but had never kissed one." Charmingly, the movie questions whether female professionalism is detrimental to femininity, romantic love, and by implication, the perpetuation of the human race. The eventual narrative solution is for A.B. to undergo an amazing but comedic transformation into a coy, clinging vine draped in flowing dresses. She wins the heart of Jimmy Bancroft, her employer's grandson, an impractical dreamer who has invented a giant eggbeater!
Gloria Swanson, legendary star of the silent screen, narrates The Age of Ballyhoo (1973, 51 minutes), which is enriched with her own colorful memories, film clips and photographs. Winner of two film festival Gold Medals, two Silver Medals and three Emmys from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, this documentary is assembled from rare, authentic souvenirs of the period: songs, graphics, newsreels and movies. Among them are scenes of Swanson in Manhandled and The Love Sunya, the sound newsreel of Lindbergh's take-off for Paris, and sound footage of the original 1927 production of Show Boat and of blues legend Bessie Smith!
Note on this edition:
The Clinging Vine is digitally mastered from a 35mm master positive taken from the original camera negative. The digitally recorded score incorporates the songs from the 1922 stage musical on which this movie is based. It is compiled and performed by Frederick Hodges, classically trained master of the syncopated piano, who has appeared around the world onstage, television and radio and has made numerous solo and band recordings.
BONUS FEATURE:
- Audio Commentary by Film historian Heather Addison, an assistant professor at Wester Michigan University
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