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Release Date:
20 November 1928 (USA)
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Plot:
Colonel Pepper brings his daughter, Peggy, to Hollywood from Georgia to be an actress. There she meets...
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1 win
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Sfsff 2009—Bardelys The Magnificent (1926) Introductory Remarks
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Marion Davies | ... | Peggy Pepper |
 | William Haines | ... | Billy Boone |
| Dell Henderson | ... | Colonel Pepper |
| Paul Ralli | ... | Andre |
 | Tenen Holtz | ... | Casting Director |
| Harry Gribbon | ... | Comedy Director |
| Sidney Bracey | ... | Dramatic Director (as Sidney Bracy) |
| Polly Moran | ... | The Maid |
| Albert Conti | ... | Producer |
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83 min (copyright length) | USA:78 min (Turner Library Print)
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1.20 : 1 more
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USA:Passed (National Board of Review)
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Based on the career of Gloria Swanson, who began her career in comedy.
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Billy Boone:
[looks at Peggy's makeup] Remember, Baby, you're not painting a bungalow.
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Featured in So Funny It Hurt: Buster Keaton & MGM (2004) (TV)
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Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh!
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This for me was a wonderful introduction to the talents and beauty of Marion Davies. She is not only gorgeous but hilarious in this film. (I believe that Lucille Ball may have modeled her later career on Davies' style, that could be termed "zany beauty".) Vidor's direction is light but sure-handed, the story is a chestnut of course but the acting is marvelously contemporary, and the star-watching element for fans of the silent era, with many cameos, adds to the overall fun. It combines the elements of slapstick with adult drama and good old timeless romance quite well. For all movie fans who have a knee-jerk reaction to watching silent films, sit through this one and it may change your attitude.