Pretty ladies
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Original title | Pretty ladies |
Country of production | United States |
original language | English |
Publishing year | 1925 |
length | 74 minutes |
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Director | Monta Bell |
script | Alice DG Miller |
production | Monta Bell for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
camera | Ira H. Morgan |
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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
- ↑ I don't think I was noticed by anyone.