Thursday, September 14 at 7:00 p.m.
PAGE MISS GLORY (Cosmopolitan / Warner Bros., 1935). Directed by Mervyn LeRoy. Screenplay by Delmer Daves and Robert Lord, based on the play of the same name by Joseph Shrank and Philip Dunning. With Marion Davies, Pat O’Brien, Dick Powell, Mary Astor, Frank McHugh, Lyle Talbot. (93 min, black & white, 35mm, preserved in 2015 from the original picture & track negatives in the United Artists Collection).
Two con men create a composite photo of the most beautiful girl in Hollywood and recruit a hotel chambermaid to play the role. “Page Miss Glory” was Marion Davies’s first film after a 14-month hiatus and her first for Warner Bros., the studio having purchased the play specifically for the actress following William Randolph Hearst’s decision to relocate his production unit, Cosmopolitan Productions, from MGM to Warner. The move was partially influenced by MGM’s refusal to cast Davies in “The Barretts of Wimpole Street” (see June 22). Unfortunately for Davies, by now in her mid-thirties, Warner repeatedly miscast her in the roles of much younger women, and with audiences and critics turning their backs on the star, she retired from acting in 1937.
Seating is on a first-come first-serve basis. Doors open at 6:30 pm.
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