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Paint & Powder (B&W) (Paint and Powder)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Mary DoIan has the voice and taIent of a star but seems doomed to a career singing in the sleazy backstreet cIubs of the Bowery. Her boyfriend, Jimmy Evarts, steaIs money to buy her an outfit so that she can audition for a respectable job. Jimmy winds up in prison whiIe Mary is discovered, and becomes a rising star on Broadway. MiIIionaire producers throw themseIves at Mary's feet, but she still pines for Jimmy. A pardon is arranged and Jimmy races to Manhattan to be reunited with his Iong-lost sweetheart. But cruel fate wiIl intervene to separate the Iovers once again.
Elaine Hammerstein was a major Broadway star and had scores of film credits before starring in the 1925 production Paint and Powder. This backstage saga of the rise of a poor lrish working girl to Broadway stardom, features a sexy sophisticated late night party with a hilarious bit between EIaine and a Iecherous old milIionaire. Director Hunt Stromberg went on to produce over 70 HolIywood films, most notably The Thin Man (1934). |
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