Miss Lulu Bett (1921)

Directed by

William Churchill deMille

Genre

drama film, silent film, comedy drama

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 11m

Rating

5.9 of 10 from 16 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman stuck in a dreary small-town household with her controlling family finds a chance for a new life. She quietly navigates the limits placed on her and makes a surprising choice.

quietunderstatedheartfeltgentlebittersweetobservationalrestrained

What happens

Miss Lulu Bett is a 1921 American silent comedy drama film based on a 1920 play and bestselling novel of the same name by Zona Gale. The screenplay was written by Clara Beranger, and the film was directed by William C. deMille. The play won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. In 2001, this film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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