Although a bit slow to get off the ground, this witty film shows what star Mae Murray and her director husband, Robert Z. Leonard, could do with a good concept. Mae plays Mary McGuire, a girl of extremely modest means. She's a coat-check girl, but gets fired from her job for dancing around in a customer's expensive coat (Murray, an ex-Follies girl, always favored an opportunity to strut her stuff). A road house just outside of town is looking for a hostess with "experience," and the innocent
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With her bee-stung lips and exaggerated swivel, [Mae] Murray's the precursor to Betty Boop.
Rare Rudolph Valentino silent melodrama.
** (out of four) This early silent film is mostly noteworthy for an early appearance of Rudolph Valentino. Unfortunately it doen't have much appeal beyond that today. Mae Murray is a poor hatcheck girl who loses a job and is forced to take a job as a dancer at a roadhouse.
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