Pretty Ladies

Pretty Ladies is an American silent film directed by Monta Bell from 1925 with ZaSu Pitts in one of her few dramatic roles. Joan Crawford is listed the first and only time under her birth name Lucille LeSueur. A few weeks after the premiere of the film, the actress got her stage name and was first mentioned in Old Clothes so in credit. The revue sequences of the film were partially received in the early two-color Technicolor.

Action

Maggie is a comedienne at the Ziegfeld Follies. They envied the other girls about their beauty. One day she falls in love with Al Cassidy, the drummer of the orchestra. The marriage proceeds happy to Selma, the star of the Follies, Al deceived, but the returns to his wife and child. Maggie does, as if nothing had happened, and the family continues to live in happiness and harmony.

Background

Still under her birth name Lucille Le Sueur signed Joan Crawford in December 1924 a studio contract with seven months of operation at the newly formed film company Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer. After a series of appearances as an extra and stand-in for the actress Norma Shearer was listed by name for the first time in the cast list of Pretty Ladies, under her birth name Lucille LeSueur. Shortly after completion of filming, she took the pseudonym of Joan Crawford. During filming, the actress made ​​the acquaintance of another one of the extras, Myrna Williams, who was known by the name Myrna Loy later. Both were close friends up to Crawford's death. Loy said later, while Crawford in 1928 thanks to Our Dancing Daughters was the star, they have until 1934 and The Thin Man must wait.

Joan Crawford the unimportance of her performance was well aware:

"I think I was noticed by anyone. "

Sources and literature used

  • Roy Newquist (ed.): Conversations with Joan Crawford. Citadel Press, Secaucus, N. J. 1980, ISBN 0-8065-0720-9
  • Lawrence J. Quirk: The Complete Films of Joan Crawford. Citadel Press, Secaucus, N. J. 1988, ISBN 0-8065-1078-1
  • Alexander Walker: Joan Crawford. The Ultimate Star. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1983, ISBN 0-297-78216-9
1925 in film Screenplay Ira H. Morgan
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