Storyline

Fun loving Pearl White, working in a garment sweatshop, gets her big chance when she "opens" for a delayed Shakespeare play...with a comic vaudeville performance. Her brief stage career leads her into those "horrible" moving pictures, where she comes to love the chaotic world of silent movies, becoming queen of the serials. But the consequences of movie stardom may be more than her leading man can take.—Rod Crawford

Plot Keywords

character name in title, audition, pie in the face, railway, reporter, director, marriage proposal, dancer, filmmaking, hot air balloon, publicity, show business, film producer, engagement, world war one, falling from height, singer, new york city, rivalry, reprisal

Short Review

The picture is a triller as well as a thriller, with a bang-up score written by Frank "Praise The Lord and Pass the Ammunition" Loesser.

Trailer

Streaming Service

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