Title from container. Bird of paradise: Dolores Del Rio, Joel McCrea, John Halliday, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher, Bert Roach. Creighton Chaney, Wade Boteler, Arnold Gray, Reginald Simpson, Napoleon Pukui, Agostino Borgato. The Lady refuses: Betty Compson, John Darrow, Gilbert Emery, Margaret Livingston, Ivan Lebedeff, Edgar Northon, Daphne Pollard. Bird of paradise was suggested by the play by Richard Walton Tully. The Lady refuses is based on the story by Robert Milton and Guy Bolton. Bird of paradise originally produced as a motion picture in 1932; The lady refuses in 1931. "AED-2027"--Container. "Digitally mastered and restored from original film elements"--Container.
Contents:
[side A.] Bird of paradise (82 min.) / Radio Pictures presents, King Vidor's production; screen play by Wells Root, Wanda Tuchock, Leonard Praskins -- [side B.] The Lady refuses (71 min.) / Radio Pictures presents; directed by George Archainbaud; produced by William LeBaron; screen play by Wallace Smith.
Summary:
Bird of paradise is a tale of an ill fated South Seas romance in which an adventurer falls in love with a native native chief's daughter. This is the original, uncut version presented in the original sepia tone. It The Lady refuses a woman is hired by a British aristocrat to lure his son away from a golddigger, but she ends up falling in love with the father instead.
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