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Party Girl

  • 1930
  • Passed
  • 1h 7min
VALUTAZIONE IMDb
5,0/10
345
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Almeda Fowler and Jeanette Loff in Party Girl (1930)
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Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaA cautionary tale. Ellen's past as a "party girl" is carefully hidden but may be exposed when another party girl tricks her fiance into marriage.A cautionary tale. Ellen's past as a "party girl" is carefully hidden but may be exposed when another party girl tricks her fiance into marriage.A cautionary tale. Ellen's past as a "party girl" is carefully hidden but may be exposed when another party girl tricks her fiance into marriage.

  • Regia
    • Victor Halperin
  • Sceneggiatura
    • Edwin Balmer
    • George Draney
    • Victor Halperin
  • Star
    • Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
    • Jeanette Loff
    • Judith Barrie
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  • VALUTAZIONE IMDb
    5,0/10
    345
    LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
    • Regia
      • Victor Halperin
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Edwin Balmer
      • George Draney
      • Victor Halperin
    • Star
      • Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
      • Jeanette Loff
      • Judith Barrie
    • 21Recensioni degli utenti
    • 4Recensioni della critica
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    Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
    Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
    • Jay Rountree
    Jeanette Loff
    Jeanette Loff
    • Ellen Powell
    Judith Barrie
    Judith Barrie
    • Leeda Cather
    Marie Prevost
    Marie Prevost
    • Diana Hoster
    John St. Polis
    John St. Polis
    • John Rountree
    Sammy Blum
    Sammy Blum
    • Sam Metten
    Harry Northrup
    Harry Northrup
    • Robert Lowry
    Almeda Fowler
    Almeda Fowler
    • Maude Lindsay
    Hal Price
    Hal Price
    • Lew Albans
    Charles Giblyn
    • Lawrence Doyle
    Sidney D'Albrook
    Sidney D'Albrook
    • Investigator
    Lucien Prival
    Lucien Prival
    • Paul Newcast
    Florence Dudley
    • Miss Manning
    Earl Burtnett
    • Orchestra Leader
    • (as Earl Burtnett and His Biltmore Orchestra and Trio)
    Eddie Bush
    • Member of Biltmore Trio - Guitar
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Louise Carver
    Louise Carver
    • Masseuse
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Paul Gibbons
    • Member of Biltmore Trio - Steel Guitar
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Henry Roquemore
    Henry Roquemore
    • Party Guest
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    • Regia
      • Victor Halperin
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Edwin Balmer
      • George Draney
      • Victor Halperin
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    Recensioni degli utenti21

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    4paulbpage

    Acting Lessons

    If you want to study good acting, this film is essential for, well, the flip side of the acting craft. The most basic line readings are spectacularly awful. My personal favorite: a woman, facing two policemen with overbearing warnings, saying, "so - long pause - what?" To be fair, though, the script, just the basic dialogue, is horrible and the plot is just the bare bones material for an audience to get a peek at a lurid world of 'party girls' and Prohibition-era 'gin parties.' The double-meanings are just a step more lurid than the thinly-veiled plots of other "A" pictures. While prostitution is the main theme, the look into how the rich flaunt the alcohol ban is sure to have titillated an audience of the era. The 'perfume' bath given to one of the girls is strongly suggested to be gin. And one cop notes before questioning a girl that the guilty go for a bottle before being interrogated. The class depictions in a film shot at the onset of the Depression also are stark. The rich drink and carouse with poor girls on the margins of society who, as the opening title says, want only to earn a living in a "decent" way. The message to women is clear enough: the workplace is no place for decent gals.
    Michael_Elliott

    Fairbanks Had a Career After This?

    Party Girl (1930)

    ** (out of 4)

    Jay Rountree (Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.) is the son of a wealthy banker who spends most of his time borrowing money from dad so that he and his friends can drink and have a good time. Jay ends up at a party and meets Leeda (Judith Barrie) and the next morning she cries that he "ruined" her good girl quality so the weak Jay marries her with no questions asked. This here breaks his heart because he wanted to marry his dad's secretary (Jeanette Loff) but before long he realizes that Leeda is a prostitute who is used at business parties to lure suckers.

    Victor Halperin would make a name for himself two years from this film when he directed the Bela Lugosi film WHITE ZOMBIE so it's interesting getting to see something earlier. This film here starts off like a lot of the exploitation pictures of the era with a "warning" telling people that a party girl is a prostitute who tries to get her nails into men and ruin their lives with various scams. I did find it funny that this was warning people against these leech hookers yet they never bothered to tell men to just stay away from them!

    With that said, I must admit that I was really shocked to see Fairbanks, Jr. in this role. This was obviously done when he was a struggling actor but it's still strange to see a name like his attached to what's basically a very low-budget exploitation movie. What's even more shocking is that he managed to go on and become a fine actor because his performance here is quite awful. Just check out the scenes where he's pouting about having to get married. Yikes. Loff isn't much better as the prostitute but Barie is good in her small role.

    PARTY GIRL is certainly worth watching if you're a fan of exploitation movies or if you want to see an early film from Fairbanks where he's not all that good. Overall the film runs just over a hour so it's decent enough to make it worth watching.
    6JoeytheBrit

    Party Girl review

    Vaguely hysterical exploitation pic in which wastrel rich kid Douglas Fairbanks Jr finds himself tricked into marriage by a prostitute after he and his mates crash a boozy party. Needless to say, Daddy isn't impressed, and neither is love interest Jeannette Loff who was once herself a "party girl." It's the kind of movie that disappeared from movie screens for a couple of decades once the Production Code came into force, but the worst you see is young women sitting on old men's laps.
    5AlsExGal

    Nothing really interesting about this precode

    There's nothing really shocking or even interesting about this precode, not even for 1930. It's basically about a ring of professional "party girls" that work for one particular madam and go around entertaining bored businessmen. Doug Fairbanks Jr. Is the partying son of the head of a manufacturing concern who crashes one of these parties one night and winds up with two souvenirs he could have done without - a huge hangover and a party girl wife. In the meantime, he's in love with his father's secretary who is a former party girl herself.

    What is really notable here is the extremely bad acting. I've seen Doug Fairbanks Jr. In several of his early roles, and even if the films weren't that great, Doug's acting was OK. Here he really hams it up, along with the rest of the cast. I can only chalk it up to bad directing by Victor Halperin who made a number of unmemorable B pictures in the 30's, one of the exceptions to that being 1932's excellent "White Zombie".

    The one strange thing that keeps happening in this film that I've never seen before is that everyone seems to think it's OK to drive your car into the service elevator of tall buildings and emerge on the floor of your choice. Fairbanks and his friends do it when they are crashing the party, and the police do the same thing at the end.

    My verdict would be to pass on this film, even if you're a precode fan. It's neither cheesy nor entertaining enough to be worth your time.
    drednm

    Lurid and Badly Acted, But...

    This lurid pre-coder is about the use of "party girls" in big business. The idea is that business men are wined and dined at wild parties where there are available girls.

    Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. stars as a college boy who attends a party and is picked up by evil Leeda (Judith Barrie). Next morning she pretends she has been "wronged" and what's he gonna do about it? The sap marries her only to discover that she wants a business deal for her real boy friend in order to Fairbanks to divorce her. What a tramp! His dad's secretary (Jeanette Loff, who sings a couple songs), a reformed "party girl," is heartbroken and so returns to the party circuit only to get caught in a police raid.

    This is a pretty racy film even for 1930. There's once scene where the girls fill a fountain with perfume and then the guys grab Marie Prevost (who does NOT get billing in this film for some reason), strip here and bathe her in the fountain while everyone watches.

    The acting is just awful, with Fairbanks and Barrie turning in hideous performances, but the film is so suggestive and trampy, it's impossible not to watch.

    John St. Polis the father, Almeda Fowler (don't call me madam!) is the madam, Louise Carver is the masseuse, and Lucien Prival is Newcast.

    On the plus side, the music is quite good, and there that freight elevator that keeps delivering cars into the party living room!

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      The film holds the record for longest UK film ban. The BBFC banned the film in 1930. It was finally released, with a PG rating, in 2003.
    • Citazioni

      Diana Hoster: [answering phone from a massage table, butt-naked--literally; this is pre-code] Di Hoster speaking, in the flesh.

    • Connessioni
      Featured in Hollywood Uncensored (1987)
    • Colonne sonore
      Oh! How I Adore You
      Words and Music by Harry Stoddard and Marcy Klauber

      Copyright 1930 by Shapiro, Bernstein & Co

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      • 1 gennaio 1930 (Stati Uniti)
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