The Cinefamily (Venue Partner)
611 N Fairfax Avenue
323.655.2510
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Still from The Patsy
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Wednesday Feb 24, 2010 (8pm)
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$10
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As newspaper mogul William Randolph Hearst’s real-life mistress, Marion Davies garnered a lifelong reputation for controversy and an unjustified caricature in the form of Citizen Kane’s ditzy charmer, Susan Alexander. The limelight was often unflattering to Davies, and her ill-advised turns (at Hearst’s insistence) in overwrought dramas overshadowed her wonderful run as a skilled comedienne in some of the Roaring Twenties’ most playful films. The Patsy casts Davies in the sort of role she was born to play -- a flighty, loveable flapper who's perceived as a pain by stuffy family members who aspire to be up-and-comers on the social circuit. Starting off meek, Marion "ditches washing dishes for a personality transfusion and drives her family nuts by mangling dictums and hitting on soused playboys." (cinepassion.org) In addition to the fun of watching the vivacious Davies vamping it up, don't miss the hilarious scene where she does spot-on impressions of three other silent starlets: Mae Murray, Pola Negri and Lillian Gish.
Dir. King Vidor, 1928, 35mm, 78 min.
