The Actors: Rare Films of Louise Brooks – Volume 1
October 12, 2011The Actors: Rare Films of Louise Brooks – Volume 1
Call Number: DVD00633
by: Adolph Zukor; Jesse L Lasky; Frank Tuttle; A Edward Sutherland; Louise Brooks; Evelyn Brent; Lawrence Gray; W C Fields; Blanche Ring; William Gaxton; Mary Foy; Paramount Pictures.; Classic Video Streams.
Format: DVD
Language: Silent with English Intertitles
Publisher: Pleasanton, CA : Classic Video Streams, [2009]
Notes: DVD includes “Love ‘Em and Leave ‘Em” (1926) and “It’s the Old Army Game (1926). Total Running Time: 141 min.
Summary: “Love ‘Em and Leave ‘Em”: Brooks as jazz-baby and flirtatious flapper is almost more than big sister can handle, who bails her out when she gambles away the department store’s party fund. (64 mins.)
“It’s the Old Army Game”: An expansion on W.C. Fields stage skits, originally performed in the Broadway revue The Comic Supplement. Described in the opening title as “the epic of the American druggist,” the skits feature the trials and tribulations of druggist Elmer Prettywillie. (77 mins.)
OCLC #: 613230367
For Volumes 2, 3, 4 See: DVD00634, DVD00635, DVD00636
Added: October 12, 2011
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
