Pretty Ladies
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| Directed by | Monta Bell |
| Written by | Alice D. G. Miller Joseph Farnham (Titles) |
| Starring | ZaSu Pitts Conrad Nagel Tom Moore Joan Crawford |
| Cinematography | Ira H. Morgan |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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Running time | 74 minutes |
| Template:Pluralize from text | United States |
| Template:Pluralize from text | Silent (English intertitles) |
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Pretty Ladies is a 1925 American silent comedy drama film starring ZaSu Pitts and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film is a fictional recreation of the famed Ziegfeld Follies. Directed by Monta Bell, the film was written by Alice D. G. Miller and featured intertitles by Joseph Farnham.[1] Pretty Ladies originally featured musical color sequences, some in two-color Technicolor.[2] However, the color sequences are now considered lost.[3]
Plot
As described in a film magazine reviews,[4] Maggie, a homely but lovable musical comedy star yearns for love, a home, and children. She marries Al Cassidy, a happy-go-lucky fellow. Her happiness is complete at the birth of a baby. Her husband leaves on business and gets into trouble with another woman. A friend of Maggie’s informs her of this. When her husband begins to confess, she seals his lips, declaring everything untrue and foolish.
Cast
Production
The film was set in New York City shot at MGM Studios in Culver City, California.[5] The film's sets were designed by the art directors James Basevi and Cedric Gibbons.
Pretty Ladies marked the first credited appearance of "Lucille Le Sueur", soon to be known as Joan Crawford. According to Lawrence J. Quirk, author of The Films of Joan Crawford, this film was the only time Crawford was credited by her real name[6] (Crawford is also billed as LeSueur in the 1925 promotional film MGM Studio Tour).[7] It was also one of the first screen appearances of Myrna Loy (then still performing under her real last name Williams),[8] who signed a seven-year contract with Warner Bros. in 1925 and then finally signed with MGM where she became a star in 1934 with the release of The Thin Man.[9]
Censorship
Before Pretty Ladies could be exhibited in Kansas, the Kansas Board of Review required the removal of a close-up of a woman's legs under a table, a scene where a man is resting his head on a woman's lap, and scene of a fly on a dancing woman's thigh.[10]
See also
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Stumpf, Charles (2010). ZaSu Pitts: The Life and Career. McFarland. p. 122. ISBN 978-0-786-46023-6.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Barrios, Richard (1995). A Song in the Dark: The Birth of the Musical Film. Oxford University Press. p. 70. ISBN 0-195-08811-5.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Progressive Silent Film List: Pretty Ladies". silentera.com. Retrieved March 4, 2015.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."New Pictures: Pretty Ladies", Exhibitors Herald, 22 (8), Chicago, Illinois: Exhibitors Herald Company: 49, August 16, 1925, retrieved July 17, 2022 Template:Source-attribution
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Leider, Emily W. (2011). Myrna Loy: The Only Good Girl in Hollywood. University of California Press. p. 50. ISBN 978-0-520-94963-8.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Quirk, Lawrence J.; Schoell, William (2013). Joan Crawford: The Essential Biography. University Press of Kentucky. p. 13. ISBN 978-0-813-14411-5.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Golden, Eve (2013). John Gilbert: The Last of the Silent Film Stars. University Press of Kentucky. p. 1918. ISBN 978-0-813-14163-3.
- ^ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.McLean, Adrienne L., ed. (2011). Glamour in a Golden Age: Movie Stars of the 1930s. Rutgers University Press. pp. 221–222. ISBN 978-0-813-54904-0.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Kansas Board of Review Movie Index - Kansas Historical Society". www.kansashistory.gov. Retrieved October 21, 2025.
External links
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- Pretty Ladies at IMDbTemplate:Edit at Wikidata
- Stills and lobby cards at www.gettyimages.com
- Stills at normashearer.com
- Joan Crawford's costume at silenthollywood.com
- Pretty Ladies on YouTube (53 minute version)
