Pretty ladies

Movie
Original title	Pretty ladies
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1925
length	74 minutes
Rod
Director	Monta Bell
script	Alice DG Miller
production	Monta Bell for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
camera	Ira H. Morgan
occupation
ZaSu Pitts : Maggie Keenan Tom Moore : Al Cassidy Lilyan Tashman : Selma Larson Norma Shearer : Frances White George K. Arthur : Roger van Horn Conrad Nagel : Maggie's man of her dreams Bernard Randall : Aaron Savage Helena D'Algy : Adrienne Lucille Le Sueur ( Joan Crawford ): Bobbie Myrna Williams ( Myrna Loy ): Extra Ann Pennington

Pretty Ladies is a 1925 American silent film directed by Monta Bell, starring ZaSu Pitts in one of her few dramatic roles. Joan Crawford is listed for the first and only time under her maiden name Lucille LeSueur. A few weeks after the premiere of the film, the actress got her stage name and was named for the first time in Old Clothes in credit. The revue sequences of the film were partly recorded in the early two-color Technicolor .

action

Maggie is a comedian with the Ziegfeld Follies . She envies the other girls for their beauty. One day she falls in love with Al Cassidy, the orchestra's drummer. The marriage goes well until Selma, the star of the Follies, seduces Al, who, however, returns to his wife and child. Maggie pretends nothing has happened and the family continues to live in happiness and harmony.

background

In December 1924, Joan Crawford signed a seven-month studio contract with the newly founded film company Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer under her maiden name Lucille Le Sueur . After a number of appearances as an extra and light double for Norma Shearer , the actress was named for the first time on the list of actors of Pretty Ladies , still under her maiden name Lucille LeSueur. Shortly after filming was completed, she took the stage name Joan Crawford. During the filming, the actress made the acquaintance of another extra, Myrna Williams, who later became known as Myrna Loy . Both were close friends until Crawford's death. Loy later said that while Crawford became a star in 1928 thanks to Our Dancing Daughters , she had to wait until 1934 and The Thin Man .

Joan Crawford was aware of the unimportance of her appearance:

"I think nobody noticed me."

literature

• Roy Newquist (Ed.): Conversations with Joan Crawford . Citadel Press, Secaucus, NJ 1980, ISBN 0-8065-0720-9 .
• Lawrence J. Quirk : The Complete Films of Joan Crawford . Citadel Press, Secaucus, NJ 1988, ISBN 0-8065-1078-1 .
• Lawrence J. Quirk, William Schoell: Joan Crawford. The Essential Biography . University Press, Lexington, KY. 2002, ISBN 0-8131-2254-6 .
• Alexander Walker: Joan Crawford. The Ultimate Star . Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 1983, ISBN 0-297-78216-9 .

Web links

• Pretty Ladies in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Background information and set photos
• Setphotos

Individual evidence

1. ↑ I don't think I was noticed by anyone.