Heavyhearted melodrama centering on the tenants of a modest New York City rooming house.Heavyhearted melodrama centering on the tenants of a modest New York City rooming house.Heavyhearted melodrama centering on the tenants of a modest New York City rooming house.
Eddy Chandler
- Tenement Resident
- (uncredited)
Ben Hall
- Tenement Resident
- (uncredited)
- …
Sidney Miller
- Messenger
- (uncredited)
Emma Tansey
- Tenement Resident
- (uncredited)
Dorothy Vernon
- Tenement Resident
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaThe memory of Louis Lone aka Lipstick, reporter of The Yorker, was still in the mind of many people, in particular about free love. People having sex with several partners, as a result Kitty Green got pregnant, but in her case she only had sex with her friend and the man that she always loved Vic (Wallace Ford). In a heated discussion between them, he told her that he knew that she was pregnant and assumed that she had severals partners, he forgot that he also had sex with her. At the end he wanted to marry her and only them he learned that he was the father.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood (2008)
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A great forgotten drama
There was very little info available on this film, and I had never heard of it, but found it very watchable, packed with interwoven stories of various boarders in a rooming house... and a bit of a tear jerker. Despite billing, Dorothy Tree is the 'star', a chorus line dancer with a problem..she's pregnant and unmarried..and considering the time of the film, this is all very open (although the 'p' word isn't spoken). She hopes upon his return, the fellow she loves, Wallace Ford, will marry her, but when he brings home a frilly southern belle wife, Tree is crushed. Harry Holman plays a con-man, who promises Lucien Littlefield hair growth and his landlady, Maude Eburne, a turtle that doubles in size every week (if fed a secret diet he will give her if she forgets his back rent). The hair falls out, the turtle does grow (it doesn't really, this is kind of funny), and Ford's bride becomes smitten by a would-be overly dramatic novelist, Walter Byron.
The pace is quick, and there isn't a wasted scene, but at the heart of the multiple individual melodramas is the 'calm' of an elderly couple-- Walter Connolly and Louise Carter..just weeks from their 50th anniversary, and dreaming of returning to England one more time to a home they finally own. The other boarders are like children they never had, and they see and accept all their shortcomings. The ending is bittersweet, hard lessons are learned, and through death comes new understandings.
The pace is quick, and there isn't a wasted scene, but at the heart of the multiple individual melodramas is the 'calm' of an elderly couple-- Walter Connolly and Louise Carter..just weeks from their 50th anniversary, and dreaming of returning to England one more time to a home they finally own. The other boarders are like children they never had, and they see and accept all their shortcomings. The ending is bittersweet, hard lessons are learned, and through death comes new understandings.
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- Sep 1, 2019
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- Runtime1 hour 14 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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