Silent
Cast
Marion Davies |
Patricia Harrington |
Orville Caldwell |
Tony Anderson |
Marie Dressler |
Ma Harrington |
Lawrence Gray |
Billy Caldwell |
Dell Henderson |
Pa Harrington |
Jane Winton |
Grace Harrington |
Genre: Comedy
Run Time: 70 min
Director: Jack Conway
Review 1
by Nicole Harrisburg
The Patsy stars Marion Davies, Marie Dressler, Orville Caldwell, Dell Henderson, Lawrence Gray, and Jane Winton in this 1928 film. The film is about Pat Harrington(Davies) who just doesn't seem to have much luck. While her sister(Winton) is pretty, she isn't at all nice to Pat and often times, she treats her badly. Identical to her sister, is her nasty and selfish Mother(Dressler), who has more concern for her "pretty'' daughter, that she hardly pays any attention to Pat. The one person who seems to treat her nicely is her Father(Henderson), who also gets mistreated by the two women. This film had an almost "Cinderella" type feel to it. Pat's Sister and Mother are like the ugly step-sisters, who are constantly worried about themselves, instead of concerning themselves with others. This is a very sweet film, that I can relate to, quite a bit! Marion is not only wonderfully cute in this, but she's also hilarious. I love the scene, when she's dressing up like Lillian Gish. I also loved the part, when she acts like she's crazy and it drives her Mother and Sister insane. One word, that fits this movie perfectly is CUTE!
Review 2
by Fernando F. Croce
The first of King Vidor's comedies with Marion Davies, and as good-natured as their more famous collaboration, Show People. Like that movie, it's a Jazz Age Cinderella story built around Davies? tomboyish sunniness -- here as the put-upon daughter of bulldog matriarch Marie Dressler, yearning to be "entrancing, alluring, ravishing... like a stocking advertisement." With snooty older sister Jane Winton hogging the attention of dream beau Orville Caldwell, Davies ditches washing dishes for a personality transfusion and drives her family nuts by mangling dictums and hitting on soused playboys.
Coming off the Dreiser-like grimness of The Crowd, Vidor goes for gentler social satire, equally sympathetic to MGM chic, Yacht Club frivolity and Dressler's Keystone mugging. Best of all, he releases Davies the cutup: whether bopping around the house or hilariously skewering '20s divas (Mae Murray's vamping, Lillian Gish's hand-twisting agitation, Pola Negri's gypsy heat), her sense of self-enjoyment is as infectious as Carole Lombard's. Adapted from a play by Barry Conners. With Dell Henderson as the henpecked father, and Lawrence Gray.