An ‘extra’ on the recent DVD edition of the Gloria Swanson/Rudolph Valentino starrer BEYOND THE ROCKS (see above), this is another recovered pic from the Netherlands archive. It’s a ramshackle comedy from Universal, megged by Robert Z. Leonard (later a fixture @ M-G-M), starring his soon-to-be wife, the largely forgotten Mae Murray. (Her tenuous claim to fame is her preposterous, yet mesmerizing perf in Stroheim’s MERRY WIDOW.) Here she’s mugs like crazy in sub-Mary Pickford mode as a darling Irish-American spitfire who poses as Eurotrash to land a dancing gig at a club. The prosaic truth comes out just in time for a happy ending with an impossibly youthful Rudolph Valentino who’s the freshest thing in the film, looking surprisingly like Buster Keaton. Check out that profile in the final sequence.
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