Children of divorce / Famous Players-Lasky Corp. ; director, Frank Lloyd ; screenplay, Hope Loring, Louis D. Lighton.
Edition:
Blu-ray/DVD dual-format edition.
Publisher:
Flicker AlleyLLC,
Copyright Date:
2016
Description:
1 Blu-ray disc (71 min.) : silent, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 videodisc (71 min. : silent, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.) + 1 booklet (11 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm)
Clara Bow, Esther Ralston, Gary Cooper, Einar Hanson, Norman Trevor, Hedda Hopper. Based on the book Children of divorce, by Owen Johnson. "This edition produced by David Shepard, Blackhawk Films Collection." Bonus materials: "Clara Bow: discovering the 'It' Girl," an hour-long film documenting the life of the woman who would become the icon of the flapper era, from her tragic childhood to her tumultuous personal life as Hollywood's first sex symbol; souvenir booklet, featuring rare photographs, an essay by film preservationist and Clara Bow biographer David Stenn, notes on the production of the documentary by producer-director Hugh Munro Neely, and a brief write-up about the music by Rodney Sauer, score compiler and director of The Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra.
Summary:
"The film begins in an American 'divorce colony' in Paris after the First World War, where parents would leave their children for months at a time. Jean, Kitty, and Ted meet there as children and become fast friends. Years later, in America, when wealthy Ted (Gary Cooper) reconnects with Jean (Esther Ralston), the two fall deeply in love, vowing to fulfill a childhood promise to one day marry each other. But true love and the most innocent of plans are no match for the scheming Kitty - played by the original Hollywood 'It' girl, Clara Bow - who targets Ted for his fortune. After a night of drunken revelry, Ted wakes up to find he has unwittingly married Kitty. This unfortunate turn of events, however, carries with it the traumatized pasts of the three players, whose views of marriage have been shaped as children of divorce."--Container.
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