KIKI - 1931 - REGINALD DENNY - RARE DVD

This movie is one of the first films with sound, and it wasn't great when the film was brand new, but on this well-worn copy the sound is sometimes a struggle to endure. But your patience with the sound quality will be well rewarded by the amazing performance by Mary Pickford in this wonderful pre-code comedy. If you thought that Lucille Ball was the first great female slap-stick comedienne, watch this film and you will think that this may have been Miss Ball's tutor. Mary Pickford is young, beautiful and totally out-of-control Kiki, and she cannot keep a job or find a man, until she sinks her hooks into Victor (Reginald Denny), a wealthy Broadway producer. Victor is despondent because his wife has divorced him and gone off with another man, and feels suicidal.Enter Kiki, who has been fired from his production because she cannot keep up with the rest of the chorus girls. She manages to get her job back by harassing Victor until he promises to put her back in the chorus if she will prom