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
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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