Film or VideoEager lips
Main title
- Eager lips / Chadwick Pictures Corporation ; director, Wilfred Noy ; production supervised by Leon Lee ; titles, Jean La'Ple.
Published/Created
- United States : First Division Distributors, Inc., 1927.
- U.S.
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Description
- 6 reels of 7 (r1-2, 4-7) (4920 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm. ref print.
- 6 reels of 7 (r1-2, 4-7) (4920 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm. dupe neg.
LC classification
- FEC 1510-1515 (ref print)
- FPB 6064-6069 (dupe neg)
Related names
- Noy, Wilfred, 1883-1948, direction, writing.
- Lee, Leon, -1963, production.
- La'Ple, Jean, writing.
- Buffington, Adele B., 1900-1973, writing.
- Miller, Ernest, 1885-1957, camera.
- Tetzlaff, Ted, 1903-1995, camera.
- Milford, Gene, editing.
- Garon, Pauline, 1901-1965, cast.
- Blythe, Betty, 1893-1972, cast.
- James, Gardner, 1901-1953, cast.
- Richardson, Jack, 1883-1957, cast.
- Warren, Fred, 1880-1940, cast.
- Chadwick Pictures Corporation.
- First Division Distributors.
- AFI/Killiam (Paul) Collection (Library of Congress)
Cast
- Pauline Garon (Mary Lee), Betty Blythe (Paula), Gardner James (Billy Armstrong), Jack Richardson (Tony Tyler), Evelyn Selbie (Mary's mother), Fred Warren (Jim Clancy), Erin La Bissemere (Charminka).
Credits
- Presenter, I.E. Chadwick ; story by Wilfred Noy and Adele Buffington ; cameramen, Ernest Miller, Ted Tetzlaff ; edited by Gene Milford.
Summary
- Paula, a worldly-wise dancer in Billy Armstrong's Varieties at Coney Island, promises to look after Mary Lee, the innocent daughter of a dying actress. Mary joins the troupe as a dancer and becomes a big hit. Tony Tyler, owner of a rival sideshow and Billy's landlord, decides to seduce her over to his side, commences to trowl on the charm and promises to renew Billy's lease and to marry her. Paula utilizes her own wiles to save Mary from Tyler's clutches, revealing him as the true scoundrel he is to Mary. She returns to Billy, who truly loves her.
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Notes
- Copyright: no reg.
- Copyright notice on film: Chadwick Pictures Corporation.
- Sources cited below list Adele Buffington as scenarist and Ted Tetzlaff as cameraman.
- End credit lacking.
- Summary is for entire film and partly taken from The AFI cat.: feature films 1921-1930, p. 208.
- NCN024089; Eager lips.
- Sources used: The AFI cat.: feature films 1921-1930, p. 208; Motion picture news booking guide [MI], v. 13, p. 26; Variety, 8/17/27.
Acquisition source
- ref print (r1) and dupe neg; Received: 10/31/74 from LC film lab; preservation; AFI/Killiam (Paul) Collection.
- ref print (r2, 4-7); Received: 6/2/80 from LC film lab; preservation; AFI/Killiam (Paul) Collection.
LCCN
- 93513461
Geographic area code
- n-us-ny
Type of material
- Film or Video
Item Availability
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