The Cardboard Lover (1928)
- Directed by
- Robert Z. Leonard
- Genre
- silent film, romantic comedy
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 17m
- Rating
- 6.3 of 10 from 5 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A woman hires a man to pretend to be her lover to make someone else jealous. Their fake romance gets complicated when real feelings start to develop.
lightheartedwhimsicalplayfulbreezyromanticsilent-eracharmingfast-paced
What happens
The Cardboard Lover is a 1928 American silent romantic comedy film directed by Robert Z. Leonard and starring Marion Davies, Nils Asther and Jetta Goudal. It was produced by Cosmopolitan Productions and distributed by Metro Goldwyn Mayer. The film is based on the 1926 play Dans sa candeur naive by Jacques Deval and its 1927 Broadway adaptation, Her Cardboard Lover by Valerie Wyngate and P.G. Wodehouse, with the genders of the main characters switched for the film. The film survives at the Library of Congress and in the Turner library. It was remade as The Passionate Plumber in 1932 and Her Cardboard Lover in 1942. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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