The Cinefamily (Venue Partner)
611 N Fairfax Avenue
323.655.2510
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Still from Getting Gertie's Garter (1927)
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Wednesday Feb 17, 2010 (8pm)
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$10
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“Silent cinema buffs and flapper fans should shoot to Cinefamily tonight for a back-to-back screening of two of the Roaring Twenties' naughtiest masterpieces. Getting Gertie's Garter and Up in Mabel's Room both star flapper Marie Prevost, a troubled Canadian starlet whose tragic Hollywood death at age 37 has been referenced in Chuck Palahniuk novels — and immortalized by British singer Nick Lowe with the sad-face lyrics, "She was a winner… that became the doggie's dinner."”
Julian Hooper, Flavorpill
Tonight's double feature takes a look at one of the Silent era's most prolific and adorable flappers: cutie-pie Marie Prevost, who starred in over 120 silents and talkies after being discovered by Mack Sennett (who dubbed her his "exotic French girl"), and whose dark curls, full lips and beaming eyes set a nation of suitors' hearts aflutter. We start the night with the frothy comedy Getting Gertie's Garter, where attorney Ken Walrick must reclaim a sexually suggestive gift (the garter given to Gertie, natch) before his other girl (ahem, his wife) finds out. Up next is Up In Mabel's Room, featuring another undergarment-related turn of events. Mabel must fight for her husband back after divorcing him for purchasing lingerie for some hot tart (who turned out to be Mabel herself! Yowzah!). So, straighten your stockings, adjust your bra straps, and don't get your panties in a bunch because definitive flapper girl Marie Prevost is a real pistol.
Getting Gertie's Garter Dir. E. Mason Hopper, 1927, 35mm, 70 min.
Up In Mabel's Room Dir. E. Mason Hopper, 1926, 35mm, 70 min.
