The Painted Angel (1929)
- Directed by
- Millard Webb
- Genre
- musical film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 08m
- Rating
- 10.0 of 10 from 1 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 night club hostess navigates love and ambition in the Prohibition era. The story follows her efforts to find happiness and success while working in the world of Broadway entertainment.
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What happens
The Painted Angel (also known as The Broadway Hostess) is a 1929 American pre-Code musical film directed by Millard Webb and starring Billie Dove and Edmund Lowe. Adapted for the screen by Forrest Halsey, the film was based on a short story by Fannie Hurst titled "Give This Little Girl a Hand," which originally appeared in Hearst's International-Cosmopolitan in 1928. The film is known as La favorita di Broadway in Italy. The tagline used to advertise the film was: Do you want to know the Truth about Night Club Hostesses? (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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