Betty Bronson & Adolphe Menjou in "Are Parents People" (1925) скачать в хорошем качестве

Betty Bronson & Adolphe Menjou in "Are Parents People" (1925)

Mr. and Mrs. Hazlitt (Adolphe Menjou & Florence Vidor), who spend most of their time fighting with each other, believe themselves to be victims of incompatibility and begin divorce proceedings. This separation weighs heavily on their daughter, Lita (Betty Bronson). Each of her parents want her to accompany them to Europe or Nevada. When she refuses to live with either of her parents, Lita is sent to boarding school. While at boarding school, this teenage daughter of a wealthy couple learns that parents can only be reunited by a common concern for the welfare of their children. Lita is expelled when she assumes the blame for a romantic letter written by her sentimental roommate to a vain movie star, actor Maurice Mansfield (George Beranger), the "movie sheik". Lita decides to use her resulting expulsion from school as a means to reunite her parents, and she decides to cause them concern once more by running away to find the movie star on location. Lita schemes to get her parents back together by pretending to fall for the dimwitted actor, hoping that her parents will unite to prevent the "romance". Lita, learns from the young Doctor Dacer (Lawrence Gray), who seems interested in Lisa, that her parents are still in love with each other. Lita innocently spends the night in the apartment of Dr. Dacer, a young surgeon who has caught her fancy. Lita's parents learn that Lita was expelled for an other young woman's mischief, and become so interested in her welfare that they now have a mutual interest and become reconciled. While Lita comfortably sleeps unnoticed in an easy chair in the doctor's office, her parents spend the night in pacing and recrimination. Lita returns home in the morning, reunites her parents, and wins for herself the affections of the doctor. A 1925 American Black & White silent comedy film, directed by Malcolm St. Clair, produced by Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky, screenplay by Frances Agnew, based on a story by Alice Duer Miller that first appeared in "The Saturday Evening Post" (May 5, 1923), cinematography by Bert Glennon, starring Betty Bronson, Florence Vidor, Adolphe Menjou, George Beranger, Lawrence Gray, Mary Beth Milford, Emily Fitzroy, and William Courtright. Released by Paramount Pictures. Edith Head was the assistant costume designer. Betty Bronson (1906-1971), born Elizabeth Ada Bronson in Trenton, New Jersey, was an American film and television actress who began her career during the silent film era. Bronson moved to East Orange, New Jersey and attended East Orange High School until she "convinced her parents to let her move to California to aid her career in films." Subsequently, the entire family moved to California.Bronson began her film career at the age of 16 with a bit part in "Anna Ascends" (1922). At 17, she was interviewed by J. M. Barrie, author of Peter Pan. Although the role had been sought by such established actresses as Gloria Swanson and Mary Pickford, Barrie personally chose Bronson to play the lead in the film adaptation of his work, which was released in 1924. She appeared alongside actresses Mary Brian (Wendy Darling) and Esther Ralston (Mrs. Darling), both of whom remained lifelong friends. Bronson played Mary, mother of Jesus, in the silent film adaptation of "Ben-Hur" (1925), although she was only onscreen for a few seconds she made an appearance in the experimentally colored segment. She starred in another Barrie story, "A Kiss for Cinderella" (1925), an artfully made film that failed at the box office. She made a successful transition into sound films with "The Singing Fool" (1928), co-starring Al Jolson. She appeared in the sequel, "Sonny Boy" (1929), with Davey Lee. She was the leading lady opposite Jack Benny in the romantic drama "The Medicine Man" (1930). Bronson continued acting until 1933 when she married Ludwig Lauerhass, "a well-to-do North Carolinian", with whom she had one child, Ludwig Lauerhass, Jr. She did not appear in films again until "Yodelin' Kid from Pine Ridge" (1937) starring Gene Autry. In the 1960s, she appeared in episodic television and feature films. Her last role was an uncredited part in the television biopic "Evel Knievel" (1971). Bronson was reclusive with the press, but received attention after being seen with Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. He had his first boyhood crush on her, as he remembered in his autobiography, The Salad Days. Bronson kept all Fairbanks' letters and spoke of him fondly until her death. A highly sophisticated comedy of manners. All the performances in this sweet, funny, and poignant film are top-notch. Pert, pretty, porcelain-doll-like Betty Bronson, filmdom’s unofficial “first teenage star” steals the show, and is one good reason to check out this largely forgotten "The Parent Trap-ish" bit of cinematic frivolousness. The gleaming home decors and evening dressed leads in this dysfunctional family movie show the Paramount comedy firmly in place before Ernst Lubitsch and Claudette Colbert showed up.