Show People
Es tut sich was in Hollywood
Source: Deutsche Kinemathek, © 1928 Turner Entertainment Co. All Rights Reserved.
Sidney Bracy, NN, Marion Davies, Ray Cooke
Show People | Es tut sich was in Hollywood by King Vidor
USA 1928, Retrospective
Source: Deutsche Kinemathek, © 1928 Turner Entertainment Co. All Rights Reserved.
William Haines, Marion Davies
Show People | Es tut sich was in Hollywood by King Vidor
USA 1928, Retrospective
© 1928 Turner Entertainment Co. All Rights Reserved.
Show People | Es tut sich was in Hollywood by King Vidor
USA 1928, Retrospective
Source: Deutsche Kinemathek, © 1928 Turner Entertainment Co. All Rights Reserved.
King Vidor
Show People | Es tut sich was in Hollywood by King Vidor
USA 1928, Retrospective
Source: Sammlung Cinémathèque suisse. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.
Ambitious Peggy Pepper has her father drive her from Georgia to Hollywood, where she snags a role in a slapstick two-reeler. She is such a big hit with the preview audience that she leaves low comedy behind and from then on, only appears in serious dramas – very much to the dismay of slapstick artist Billy Boone, who has supported her, and fallen in love with her. Peggy becomes “Patricia Pepoire” and working alongside her also frenchified partner becomes a box-office star. Intoxicated with fame, she even plans to marry the (counterfeit) count … Suggested by Gloria Swanson’s career, King Vidor’s last silent film provides a unique glimpse into the early film industry. Show People is an homage to the Hollywood of paste-on moustaches and cream pies in the face – nostalgic, but also authentic. The film included cameo appearances by some former Keystone Cops, John Gilbert, Douglas Fairbanks, Norma Talmadge, and Charlie Chaplin, who asks Peggy for an autograph. King Vidor also makes an appearance, as the director of a war picture à la The Big Parade, with the plot of the film, and the film within a film, dovetailing nicely.
With
- Marion Davies
- William Haines
- Dell Henderson
- Paul Ralli
- Tenen Holtz
- Harry Gribbon
- Sidney Bracy
- Polly Moran
- Albert Conti
- Rolfe Sedan
- John Gilbert
- Charles Chaplin
- King Vidor
- Elinor Glyn
- Douglas Fairbanks
- Aileen Pringle
- Karl Dane
- George K. Arthur
- Norma Talmadge
- Renée Adorée
- Rod La Rocque
Crew
| Director | King Vidor |
| Screenplay | Wanda Tuchock |
| Story | Agnes Christine Johnston, Laurence Stallings |
| Cinematography | John Arnold |
| Editing | Hugh Wynn |
| Ralph Spence | |
| Art Director | Cedric Gibbons |
| Costumes | Henrietta Frazer |
Produced by
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp. (Loew’s, Inc.) (A King Vidor Production. A Marion Davies Production)
Additional information
Print: Warner Bros. Pictures Germany, Hamburg