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Quality Street (1927)

Quality Street poster
Directed by
Sidney Franklin
Genre
silent film, comedy drama
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 20m
Rating
6.9 of 10 from 9 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman in a small town disguises herself to win back a man she lost years ago. She invents a glamorous new persona to capture his attention.

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What happens

Quality Street is a 1927 American silent romance film directed by Sidney Franklin and starring Marion Davies, Conrad Nagel and Helen Jerome Eddy. Produced by Cosmopolitan Productions for release through MGM, it was based on the 1901 play of the same name by James M. Barrie. Prints of this film are preserved at the Library of Congress and in the Turner Archive. In 2002, the film was released on DVD by the Milestone Films and Video company releasing through Image Entertainment. There was also a sound film version made in 1937, starring Katharine Hepburn. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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