WHY BE GOOD?
Special Features: Vitaphone vintage jazz recorded track. Nov. 12 show features intro by Karen Burditt, Art Deco Society of Washington
Does it pay to be good or is it better to be bad? Long considered lost, Colleen Moore's final silent film has recently been restored. Moore plays Pert Kelly, a fun-loving flapper with a reputation as a party girl who's in fact quite down-to-earth and respectable. Late for her department store job after a wild night out, Pert gets fired — by the very man she was cavorting with the previous night, Winthrop Peabody, Jr. (Neil Hamilton)! This puts a wrinkle in the date they had made for the following night — but love finds a way. The original Vitaphone soundtrack features tracks by hot jazz greats Jimmy Dorsey, Phil Napoleon, Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang. DIR William A. Seiter; SCR Paul Perez, Carey Wilson; PROD John McCormick. U.S., 1929, b&w, 84 min. NOT RATED
No AFI Member passes accepted.
Co-presented by Art Deco Society of Washington.
Run Time: 84 Minutes
Opening Date: Friday, November 10, 2023
Genre: Silent comedy
