I Found Stella Parish

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Stella Parrish is a celebrated actress who triumphs on the stages of London. However, it has a dark secret: In 1930 it was still called Elsa Jeffords and her husband shot back in a fit of jealousy her stage partner. Due to some complications in the script, the young wife also had to go to prison, where she brought her daughter to the world. As Stella Elsa Parrish celebrated successes and became famous when one day her long-lost husband reappears and tries to blackmail her. In order to spare her daughter the scandal, Stella Parrish disappear from one day to the other with her daughter to America. The press turns it into a media event and the reporter Keith Lockridge sets out to search for the Star. As already announced the title, he one day finds Stella Parrish and betrays them. Stella decides to spare her daughter the scandal and sends her to a convent, while she sinks deeper and deeper itself to act in a cheap Burlesqueshow at the end. Keith and Stella, however, have fallen in love and together both of which are still many complications. In the end, Stella makes with the help of Stephen Norman a terrific comeback and is celebrated as a new nozzle. She finds true happiness with Keith.

Background

Kay Francis in 1932 came from Paramount to Warner Brothers and went within a few years the biggest female star of the studio. Her films were mostly routine strips Francis presented as a woman who survives all sorts of problems with tears in his eyes. The never-ending suffering in their films was coated with a high degree of glamor. Your success in the predominantly female audience based on their ability to play sentimental and implausible stories with confidence and integrity. Then there was her reputation to be one of the best dressed women of the United States. 1936 her the title of "Best Dressed Woman in Movies" was awarded, she won against competition from Marlene Dietrich, Joan Crawford, Norma Shearer and Carole Lombard.

I Found Stella Parrish is a prime example of the kind of films that a star of the matinee performances accounted for Kay Francis, those theater performances, which were placed specifically in the hours of the early afternoon for housewives to the opportunity to gain the female audience, even before school hours and any hairdresser appointments quickly to go to the movies. The produced at considerable expense history makes little attention to questions of logic and credibility and exclusively focused, to maintain as many blows as possible for Stella Parrish. Thus, Francis returned to the formula that she had made ​​a star after a few appearances found little favor in light comedies with the fans. The film was one of the most successful productions of the year for the studio and out of gratitude renewed the management contract of the actress and increased their weekly salary to $ 5,250.

The film was the first strip, the Francis and Ian Hunter presented together. Both actors played the roles again in the popular radio show Hollywood Hotel from Louella Parsons

Criticism

In the New York Times was brought to the point, what fate awaits the heroine:

"If [ the studio ] has actually overlooked some trick to coax the last tear, then the failure is too marginal to be mentioned. The story is not just indescribably sad, but set by Mervyn LeRoy in the pace of a funeral procession in the scene. "

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