The dancer, Diotima, meets an engineer and skier, Karl, in his cottage in the mountains where they fall in love and have an affair. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1920s
The Hope Diamond Mystery (1921) Stuart Paton, Grace Darmond, Harry Carter, George Chesebro
The true story of Lord Francis Hope who inherits the Hope Diamond and marries showgirl May Yohe. Read More »
The Matinee Idol (1928) Frank Capra, Bessie Love, Johnnie Walker, Ernest Hilliard
The famous matinee idol and blackface comedian, Don Wilson, heads out of town to escape adulation. Read More »
Submarine (1928) Frank Capra, Irvin Willat, Jack Holt, Dorothy Revier, Ralph Graves
Two sailors who are always competing against each other set their sights on the same girl. Read More »
Orphans of the Storm (1921) D.W. Griffith, Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Joseph Schildkraut
Henriette and Louise, a foundling, are raised together as sisters. When Louise goes blind, Henriette swears to take care of her forever. Read More »
Dream Street (1921) D.W. Griffith, Carol Dempster, Charles Emmett Mack, Ralph Graves
Three men in London compete for the love of a dance-hall girl. Read More »
Broadway (1929) Pál Fejös, Glenn Tryon, Evelyn Brent, Merna Kennedy
A naive young dancer in a Broadway show innocently gets involved in backstage bootlegging and murder. Read More »
Applause (1929) Rouben Mamoulian, Helen Morgan, Joan Peers, Fuller Mellish Jr.
This early example of the “backstage” musical genre tells the story of Kitty Darling Read More »
The Cocoanuts (1929) Robert Florey, Joseph Santley, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx
Mr. Hammer runs a bankrupt Florida hotel. He’ll try anything to make money, even make love to rich Mrs. Potter. Read More »
Blackmail (1929) Alfred Hitchcock, Anny Ondra, John Longden, Sara Allgood
Alice White is the daughter of a shopkeeper in 1920’s London. Her boyfriend, Frank Webber is a Scotland Yard detective who seems more interested in police work than in her. Read More »