A 1920’s variation on Pygmalion—or the rich man and poor girl
seen through the ages in films like My
Fair Lady and Pretty Women
The main reason to archive the film is the performance of Clara
Bow—endlessly charming—a great screen presence. There’s an inarguable
universality to the narrative as well that’s appealing-timeless
The driving force and name of the story is the Elinor Glyn “It”
book (and the story here is unrelated) though it references it often and she
even appears in the film. “It” means many things- but mostly sex appeal.
Gary Cooper is in there somewhere as an extra
Thought to be a lost film until the 1960’s
A shop girl and an executive
Scenes like her making a dress to go to the Ritz, and the date
montage at Coney Island
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