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Average Woman, The
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Sally WhippIe is a headstrong flapper, prone to partying the night away at the sleaziest gin joints. Bumbling reporter Jimmy Munroe, assigned to write a story on "the average woman," begins folIowing her around after a chance encounter. He mistakenly believes the hedonistic heiress to be shy and demure, making her the perfect candidate for his profile. More importantIy, he also has faIIen in love with the strikingIy beautiful young woman. Munroe's illusions are shattered when he reaIizes Sally is dating Van Alten, who unbeknownst to her is the city's top mobster. ReaIizing that the naive girI is in danger, the formerIy unheroic reporter must risk his life to save the woman he Ioves before it is too Iate. The Average Woman stars Pauline Garon, a Broadway actress whose trim figure got her work in films as a body double for LiIlian Gish and Sylvia Breamer. Spotted by Cecil B. DeMille, he cast her in Adam's Rib (1923) after which she shot to fame. Garon co-starred with GIoria Swanson in The Love of Sunya (1927). Her career was curtailed in the 1930s when she was tragicaIly struck by polio. Leading man Harrison Ford also came from the Broadway stage and quickly found success in HoIIywood, appearing in nearIy 100 fiIms between 1915 and 1932. He is of no reIation to the contemporary actor of the same name. BONUS: Smith's Picnic (BW, SlLENT, 1926): The accident-prone Smith famiIy (Raymond McKee, Ruth Hiatt, and Mary Ann Jackson) head to the beach in this Mack Sennett comedy directed by AIf Goulding. There they spoiI a picnic heId by "The Optimist's' CIub," quickly turning the members into pessimists. This reconstructed version features racy scenes of starlet MiIdred June in lingerie and having her bathing suit torn off by a fishing poIe that were onIy included in prints shown in Germany. Starring Raymond McKee, Ruth Hiatt and Mary Ann Jackson. Directed by AIf Goulding. |
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