BGuthrie Photos: AFI -- Silent Cinema -- "Show People" (w/Ben Model and Lara Gabrielle Fowler)

AFI -- Silent Cinema -- "Show People" (w/Ben Model and Lara Gabrielle Fowler):

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Description of Pictures: SHOW PEOPLE in 35mm
Special Features: Live musical accompaniment by Ben Model. Introduction by film historian Lara Gabrielle Fowler, author of "Captain of Her Soul: The Life of Marion Davies." Books will be available for sale/signing.
Georgian stage actress Peggy Pepper (Marion Davies) sets her sights on Hollywood and finds success as a foil to slapstick comic Billy Boone (William Haines). Still dreaming of becoming a serious actress, she signs up with High Art Studios, which specializes in stuffy costume dramas, and changes her name to "Patricia Pepoire." A chance meeting between Billy's knockabout crew and the pretentious High Art ensemble helps Peggy to see that comedy might be the more honest trade for her. Something of a roman à clef for Davies' own film career, where her producer-lover William Randolph Hearst persisted in casting her in costume dramas despite her ample and evident comedic talent, SHOW PEOPLE rings true as an insider's take on the ways of the silent-movie world. Adding to that authenticity are a bevy of stars playing themselves in candid cameo appearances, including Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Norma Talmadge, John Gilbert, William S. Hart, Mae Murray, Renée Adorée, Eleanor Boardman, Louella Parsons and director King Vidor himself. DIR/PROD King Vidor; SCR Agnes Christine Johnston, Laurence Stallings; PROD Marion Davies, Irving Thalberg. U.S., 1928, b&w, 79 min. Silent with English intertitles. NOT RATED

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. SHOWP_221118_0003.JPG: Lara Gabrielle Fowler
2. SHOWP_221118_0016.JPG: Ben Model
3. SHOWP_221118_0023.JPG: Lara Gabrielle Fowler
4. SHOWP_221118_0043.JPG: Todd Hitchcock (AFI)
5. SHOWP_221118_0060.JPG: Ben Model and Todd Hitchcock (AFI)
6. SHOWP_221118_0104.JPG: Lara Gabrielle Fowler
7. SHOWP_221118_0213.JPG: Director King Vidor and Marion Davies had known each other for a long time. Vidor married hiis wife Eleanor Boardman at Marion's home in 1926. He had directed Marion Davies in The Patsy earlier in 1928, which had cemented her as a comedic actress.
8. SHOWP_221118_0234.JPG: Show People is loosely based on the early career of Gloria Swanson, and Marion Davies imitates her throughout.
9. SHOWP_221118_0248.JPG: "So clever is the comedy in Show People... that it would not be all [ that ] surprising to hear that many in the audience had sat through it twice." -- Mordaunt Hall, The New York Times, November 12, 1928
10. SHOWP_221118_0892.JPG: Ben Model, Lara Gabrielle Fowler
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