In 1923 Pauline Garon was hailed as Cecil B. DeMille's big new discovery, she was prominent in "Adam's Rib" and was made a Wampas Baby Star but, strangely, refused a Paramount contract claiming she wanted to freelance. Free lancing usually meant a career death but Garon's cute looks made her a must for flapper roles in movies like "The Painted Flapper", "Eager Lips" and "Temptations of a Shopgirl".
"Sally Whipple was christened with an old fashioned name - but it didn't take"!! Pauline is perfect as Sally, a new fashioned girl pursued by the mysterious Rudolph (maybe a satirical homage to the then popular Valentino) and soon (after a visit to the library) to pique the interest of reporter Jimmy Monroe (Harrison Ford) who finds her a perfect subject for a series of articles he has to write about "the average woman" of today!! A very cute little scene in the library - Sally happens (on purpose!!) to glance at Jimmy's jottings on how to tell a flapper ("if she picks a lock with a hairpin, if she frequently uses Postscripts and if she is afraid of mice"). She incorporates all three in a neat little sequence which soon has Jimmy eating out of her hand!!
It could have continued as a nice battle of the sexes movie but all too soon gangsters and nightclubs rear their sinful heads!! Mysterious Rudolph is really the owner of a notorious tavern - he lusts after Sally and desperately needs a scandal in her family so she and her rich poppa will be in his power. Someone else is eyeing off Rudy as well, she is the older manageress of the club (De Sacia Mooers, who seemed to make a movie career out of just those sorts of roles) and when she finds out that the dirt she has dug up on Judge Whipple, which includes a little orphan who has made his home at the club, is going to be used for Rudy's benefit and doesn't include her - well, "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"!!!
David Powell who had the second lead as the sly Rudolph, was a British actor of some repute who had played opposite Ellen Terry in his 20s, he specialized in cad roles but unfortunately died of pneumonia in 1925 at the age of 42.
Highly Recommended
"Sally Whipple was christened with an old fashioned name - but it didn't take"!! Pauline is perfect as Sally, a new fashioned girl pursued by the mysterious Rudolph (maybe a satirical homage to the then popular Valentino) and soon (after a visit to the library) to pique the interest of reporter Jimmy Monroe (Harrison Ford) who finds her a perfect subject for a series of articles he has to write about "the average woman" of today!! A very cute little scene in the library - Sally happens (on purpose!!) to glance at Jimmy's jottings on how to tell a flapper ("if she picks a lock with a hairpin, if she frequently uses Postscripts and if she is afraid of mice"). She incorporates all three in a neat little sequence which soon has Jimmy eating out of her hand!!
It could have continued as a nice battle of the sexes movie but all too soon gangsters and nightclubs rear their sinful heads!! Mysterious Rudolph is really the owner of a notorious tavern - he lusts after Sally and desperately needs a scandal in her family so she and her rich poppa will be in his power. Someone else is eyeing off Rudy as well, she is the older manageress of the club (De Sacia Mooers, who seemed to make a movie career out of just those sorts of roles) and when she finds out that the dirt she has dug up on Judge Whipple, which includes a little orphan who has made his home at the club, is going to be used for Rudy's benefit and doesn't include her - well, "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"!!!
David Powell who had the second lead as the sly Rudolph, was a British actor of some repute who had played opposite Ellen Terry in his 20s, he specialized in cad roles but unfortunately died of pneumonia in 1925 at the age of 42.
Highly Recommended
