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DVD My Best Girl
In My Best Girl, Mary Pickford demonstrates the winsome charm that won her the title "America's Sweetheart." She plays Maggie Johnson, a sensible stockroom girl at Merrill's, a five-and-ten-cent store. This is the heyday of the big five-and-dimes and Robert Merrill (Hobart Bosworth), the store's wealthy owner, is clearly a stand-in for F.W. Woolworth. The opening shot of Maggie displays Pickford's prodigious gift for physical comedy. She stumbles onto the selling floor laden with pots and pans, kicking them out of her way and wearing them like shoes. Then, when a salesgirl takes a break, Maggie is given the chance to be a salesgirl herself for a fateful few moments.
Maggie's first and only customer is the owner's son, Joe Merrill, (fresh-faced and sunny Charles "Buddy" Rogers). Maggie has no clue of the young man's pedigree, as he is slumming as "Joe Grant." His father has insisted that he work his way up as a humble store clerk without benefit of his famous name. The chemistry between Joe and Maggie is instantly apparent. Maggie takes him down to the stockroom, where he's helpless with the simplest tasks. "You know, you're awfully dumb," she tells him. But thanks to her patient training, he's eventually promoted to the position of her boss. (It's an appealing role reversal of the principals in the "Pygmalion"/"My Fair Lady" tale.) In the meantime, of course, they fall in love.
The moment when Maggie realizes Joe's true identity is stunning. She runs back to her humble family on "Goat Hill": fumbling father, (Lucien Littlefield), lachrymose mother (Sunshine Hart), and reprobate sister (Carmelita Geraghty). Is Maggie and Joe's love affair doomed? Or will they sail away to paradise together? Only those who see My Best Girl can learn the answers to these burning questions. --Laura Mirsky
Mary Pickford "America's Sweetheart" now on DVD!!!!!!
Mary Pickford was the most powerful, popular and influencial woman of Hollywood from 1910 - 1937. Co-founder of United Artists Studios in 1919, wife of Douglas Fairbanks the swashbuckling Silent film star (1919-1936). Owner of numerous companies and the hostess to the most lavish Hollywood parties during this period at her famous estate "PickFair" (named after her & husband Fairbanks).
Mary Pickford has been absent from the general public but the "Mary Pickford Foundation" has restored and digitalized some of her most memorable films. (She did over 200 such 2 & 3 reelers films from 1908-1927).
"My Best Girl" was her last silent film and one of her best with actor Charles "Buddy" Rogers her frequent and later her husband (1937 - 1976).
This movie has chemistry with her and Buddy. It provides us with an emotional roller coaster ride and a love story everyone will enjoy. Mary Pickford has screen presence and you quickly understand why she became "America's Sweetheart" and even had the title of the "Worlds Sweetheart" abroad.
The new "orignal symphonic score" by David Michael Frank is absolutely fantastic and adds to this delightful silent classic.
You haven't many choices to see digitally restored Silent Classic Film Stars of old but with Foundations like Mary Pickfords we can once again enjoy the magic of silent storytelling through the genious of visual acting talents of the great ones like Mary Pickford.
Included extras are some home movies of Mary and Buddy. A nice personal touch to their private & public lives.
Enjoy this silent romantic comedy and escape for 79 minutes to another time in Hollywood. Mary Pickford is "My Best Girl" and "America's Sweetheart".
A wonderful film!
This is one of the most classic films of the silent era. It's very easy to see why Mary Pickford was "America's Sweetheart". In this film she plays a shop girl who falls in love with another clerk, not knowing he's the storeowner's son. This is a wonderful film for Mary Pickford fans or silent film fans. It's also notable since Mary Pickford and Buddy Rogers later married in real life. This charming film is highly recommended! Another good Mary Pickord film is "Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley" (1918).
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This movie is interesting to watch because ten years after it was made, Buddy Rogers and Mary Pickford were married. It is also a wonder that Mary was around the top of the hill when she made this and yet she still looked so young and beautiful. Emotions soar out of this film that are felt in movies of today. One never notices that it is silent; it simply isn't an issue. One of my favorite scenes is when Mary deliberatly pushes her belongings off of the car she is riding on so that she can see Buddy for just a little longer.
Mary Pickford plays two roles in this film; it is a testament to her phenomenal acting talent that we really see her as two completely different characters. In the title role of Stella Maris, Pickford portrays a lovely young woman, paralyzed from childhood, whose wealthy, aristocratic parents have kept her utterly sheltered from the ugly realities of the outside world. As poor little orphan girl Unity Blake, Pickford is literally unrecognizable.
Make-up, hair, and costumes help achieve this remarkable transformation. Stella Maris is radiantly pretty, with bright eyes and lips and flowing curls, decked out in ruffled white frocks. Unity is painfully plain: sallow-skinned and dull-haired, in an orphan's homespun, shapeless shift. But it is Pickford's extraordinary facility with body... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Marshall Neilan DVD Release Date: Released the 18 April 2000 Usually ships within 24 hours
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Mary Pickford is the cinema's true Peter Pan. She played spunky waifs and adolescent spitfires well into adulthood and remains best remembered as the crusading orphan raging against ruthless villains and natural disasters with pluck, courage, and hope. Sparrows is quintessential Pickford, the tale of a ragtag collection of orphans made virtual slaves by a gnarled, swamp-dwelling Simon Legree. As the big sister/mother hen of the grimy brood, she takes it upon herself to lead them out of this fetid hell through the alligator-infested swamp, with their vicious master in hot pursuit. It's Oliver Twist as a mustache-twirling melodrama, pure sentimental pulp that verges on mawkish but for Pickford's innocence and sincerity and William Beaudine's rousing direction. He turns the... More Info about this DVD Director(s): William Beaudine DVD Release Date: Released the 21 September 1999 Usually ships within 24 hours
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Tess of the Storm Country might be seen as the archetypal Mary Pickford film. Pickford plays Tessibel Skinner, a dirt-poor fisherman's daughter living with a community of squatters in ramshackle huts by the water's edge. Tess was reportedly one of Pickford's favorite roles (both in this 1922 version and in an earlier one, shot in 1914), and it shows. She brings a sparkling energy to her performance. Dressed in rags, her hair a frazzled mop, she creates an indelible character. ("The more ragged and dirty I look, the better I can play," declared Pickford in a 1914 Photoplay Magazine interview.)
Every man in squatter town has eyes for the beautiful, fearless Tess, from brutish Ben Letts (Jean Hersholt) to pathetic Ezra Longman (Danny Hoy). But Tess's heart belongs to her... More Info about this DVD Director(s): John S. Robertson DVD Release Date: Released the 14 December 1999 Usually ships within 2 to 3 days
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In Daddy-Long-Legs, Mary Pickford plays an orphan, Jerusha (Judy) Abbott, abandoned as a baby in an alley and raised in a cruel orphanage. The scenes in the orphanage are extraordinary. Pickford, although in her late '20s when the film was shot, is absolutely believable as a pigtailed 12-year-old; she's the epitome of a child-woman, the essence of gamine. Protector and champion of her fellow orphans--truly adorable kiddies dressed in identical gingham outfits--Pickford's Judy is brave and kind but full of piss and vinegar, never sticky-sweet. One scene in particular is a showcase for Pickford's mastery of physical comedy. She and an orphan lad, played by Wesley Barry, a little boy whose slapstick flair matches Pickford's own, get drunk on applejack. It's plain hilarious.
I really enjoy silent movies. Especially ones with Mary Pickford. This one, while not her best, or maybe not even one of them, remains to be an enjoyable little movie, from 1925. Having said that, I will not go widely into the story of this movie (I really dont know how to write about it, without spoiling a scene in some way), so instead, I am going to make this a review of the DVD.
This DVD is from Terra Entertainment. It is, as you would have gotten from the title of this review, a budget disc. Funnilly enough, it really is not that bad of a budget release either, but it does have a number of bad points. The music on this disc, that accompanies the film, is horrible. It sounds horrible, and was not for this film either, and it really does not fit with it. Ok, there are a few scenes,... More Info about this DVD Director(s): William Beaudine DVD Release Date: Released the 28 January 2003 Usually ships within 24 hours
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