The real life story of actress Pearl White during her rise to fame in silent serials.
The Perils of Pauline 1947 HD | Comedy film directed by George Marshall | Biography of silent film star Pearl White | Betty Hutton
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The Perils of Pauline is a 1947 American film directed by George Marshall (director) and released by Paramount Pictures. The film is a fictionalized Hollywood account of silent film star Pearl White’s rise to fame, starring Betty Hutton as White.
The film, a broad satire of silent-film production, is a musical-comedy vehicle for Hutton, filmed in Technicolor, with original songs by Frank Loesser (including the standards “I Wish I Didn’t Love You So” and “Rumble, Rumble, Rumble”).
Paul Panzer, who played the villain in the 1914 film, has a very small part in this film, as do silent-comedy veterans Chester Conklin, Hank Mann, Snub Pollard, and Jimmy Finlayson.
Plot
“Pearl” is an ambitious hoyden who rises from amateur-night vaudeville to silent-screen stardom. The major plot line is the romantic relationship she has with Farrington, the hard driving boss (Lund) of the vaudeville troop she joins, the film career is a secondary plot line.
The film is highly anachronistic with Hutton generally performing in swing music style though the action takes places in the teens and early twenties. However the free-wheeling, less complicated and often impetuous nature of early silent film making is captured in spirit.
Cast
- Betty Hutton as Pearl White
- John Lund (actor) as Michael Farrington
- Billy De Wolfe as Mr. Timmy Timmons
- William Demarest as George “Mac” McGuire
- Constance Collier as Julia Gibbs
- Frank Faylen as Mr. Joe Gurt
- William Farnum as Western Saloon Set Hero
- Chester Conklin as Comic Chef
- Paul Panzer as Drawing Room Gent
- “Snub” Pollard as Western Saloon Set Propman
- James Finlayson (actor) as Comic Chef
- Creighton Hale as Marcelled Leading Man
- Hank Mann as Comic Chef
- Francis McDonald as Western Saloon Set Heavy
- Bert Roach as Western Saloon Set Bartender
- Heinie Conklin as Studio Cop
Soundtrack
- “Poor Pauline” (Written by Charles McCarron and Raymond Walker (songwriter))
- Betty Hutton – “I Wish I Didn’t Love You So” (Written by Frank Loesser)
- Betty Hutton – “The Sewing Machine” (Written by Frank Loesser)
- Betty Hutton – “Rumble, Rumble, Rumble” (Written by Frank Loesser)
- Betty Hutton – “Poppa, Don’t Preach To Me” (Written by Frank Loesser)
Awards
Frank Loesser was nominated for an Oscar in the category “Best Music, Original Song” for “I Wish I Didn’t Love You So”.
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