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29 August 1926 (USA) morePlot Keywords:
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(Credited cast) | Gloria Swanson | ... | Orchid Murphy |
 | Eugene O'Brien | ... | Brian Alden |
| Helen Dunbar | ... | Aunt Agatha |
| Roland Drew | ... | Buddy Murphy (as Walter Goss) |
| John Miltern | ... | Courtney Adams |
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This was Gloria Swanson's last film for Paramount for 24 years. She would return to the studio in 1950 for Sunset Blvd. (1950). moreFAQ
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A good Gloria Swanson comedy programmer, this lacks the verve that her work with Alan Dwan showed (MANHANDLED is a classic). The story, about how rich Eugene O'Brien falls in love with poor Gloria, but her aunt insists that she be trained as a lady while Eugene is off for six months in South America --is decently handled. But there are clear cheats in this as a double does cartwheels for Gloria: if Dwan had been directing, Gloria would have insisted on doing the cartwheels herself.
Director Rossen does a fine job on the visuals with the help of cinematographer George Webber, who seems not to have adjusted to the constraints of shooting with sound a few years later. Their pans of faces a couple of times are telling, human and very funny.
But the most interesting thing about this film is the way Swanson is made up. I had to blink a couple of times when I realized that she had the same look Joan Crawford would sport during her 1930s 'Shopgirl' phase.