United Artists
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Coquette
100% talking picture
A Southern belle's flirtation with a working man leads to tragedy.
- Original title
- Coquette
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
- —
- Revenue
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CinemaSerf
Jun 6, 2022 · via TMDB
I recall being at a lunch once with a fairly prominent British sport's commentator who had started out on the radio, but moved onto television. The hardest thing, he said, about the new medium was to adapt to the fact that it did much of the heavy lifting for you - you had to train yourself to let it. Mary Pickford - who won an Oscar for this - still wanted to be a silent film star here. She couldn't quite let the dialogue do her heavy lifting for her - and the result is an over-cooked performance that at time borders on the hysterical. It is a simple enough story - her father (John St. Polis) has aspirations for his family, and they don't include his daughter marrying "Michael Jeffrey" (Johnny Mack Brown). He forbids them from seeing one and other, and though obedient for a time, that doesn't last and they rendezvous - a meeting that has dire consequences. It's very theatrical in presentation. The first few scenes almost have you looking for their cue marks on the carpet - especially those featuring her amiable young brother "Jimmy" (William Janney) and her would-be beau "Stanley" (Matt Moore). It isn't a great play, so the film has little substantial to work with, but as a piece of embryonic speech cinema history it is certainly worth a watch, but I doubt anyone involved would consider it they best work - more a work in progress.
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Mary Pickford
Norma Besant
Johnny Mack Brown
Michael Jeffery
Matt Moore
Stanley Wentworth
John St. Polis
Dr. John M. Besant
William Janney
Jimmy Besant
Henry Kolker
Jasper Carter
George Irving
Robert Wentworth
Louise Beavers
Julia
Phyllis Crane
Bessie
Joseph Depew
Joe
Robert Homans
Court Bailiff
Vera Lewis
Miss Jenkins
Craig Reynolds
Young Townsman at Dance
Karl Struss
Director of Photography
Sam Taylor
Director
Barbara McLean
Editor
Mary Pickford
Producer
Sam Taylor
Producer
Hugo Riesenfeld
Sound
Allen McNeil
Adaptation
Sam Taylor
Dialogue
Allen McNeil
Screenplay
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