Coordinates | 21°50′20″N45°23′29″N |
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name | Show People |
director | King Vidor |
producer | Irving Thalberg |
starring | Marion DaviesWilliam Haines |
cinematography | John Arnold |
editing | Hugh Wynn |
distributor | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
released | 11 November 1928 |
runtime | 79 minutes |
country | |
language | Silent filmEnglish intertitles |
gross | }} |
Show People is a 1928 comedy silent film directed by King Vidor. The movie was a starring vehicle for actress Marion Davies and actor William Haines and included notable cameo appearances by many of the film personalities of the day, including stars Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, William S. Hart and John Gilbert, and writer Elinor Glyn. Vidor also appears in a cameo as himself, as does Davies (to a decidedly unimpressed reaction by herself in character as Peggy Pepper). The film is a lighthearted look at Hollywood at the end of the silent film era (it was released the year after breakthrough talking picture The Jazz Singer), and is considered Davies' best role. The film was re-released in the 1980s, with a new orchestral score by Carl Davis.
In 2003, Show People was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Soon enough, Peggy is signed to a contract by the prestigious "High Art" studio and, as "Patricia Pepoire", becomes a real movie star. She has fulfilled her dream of playing serious, dramatic roles, but she cuts off contact with Billy and the old comedy troupe, and soon becomes so conceited that her boring performances begin to drive away her public. Fortunately, on the day of her marriage to her co-star, phony-count Andre Telefair (Paul Ralli), Billy bursts in and, by means of another shpritz of seltzer in her face, as well as a custard pie in Andre's, brings her to her senses, rescuing her career and both of their happiness.
The film has a remarkable number of cameo appearances from some of the top stars of the day, including Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, William S. Hart, and others. Many agreed to appear out of friendship with Davies, Hearst, and director Vidor, but the positive publicity value of cooperating with Hearst and MGM also played a factor.
Originally the script called for Peggy to get hit in the face with a pie after being pressed into the comedy movie shoot. William Randolph Hearst objected to this, fearing for Marion Davies' dignity, and as a compromise the scene was changed to have Peggy soaked with spray from a seltzer bottle.
Davies' peculiar lip pucker after she becomes "Patricia Pepoire" was an imitation of Mae Murray whom Davies bore a resemblance to. This movie is similar in theme to the lost Paramount cameo filled comedy Hollywood directed by James Cruze in which a young woman and her elderly grandfather go to Hollywood for her to become a star. Peggy's story was inspired in part by that of Gloria Swanson, who got her start as a Bathing Beauty at Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios before hitting it big as a dramatic actress, and who later married a French nobleman. The character of Andre was seen at the time as a satire of John Gilbert. The closing scene on the set of a war movie may be a nod to King Vidor's smash hit of three years before, The Big Parade.
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