[MOVIE]

DELICIOUS LITTLE DEVIL

Cast and Credits

R.: Robert Z.Leonard. S.: dalla novella Kitty, Mind Your Feet di Harvey F. Thew e John B. Clymer. Sc.: Harvey F. Thew. F.: Allan Ziegler. In.: Mae Murray (Mary McGuire), Rodolfo Valentino (Jimmie), Harry  Rattenbury (Patrick), Richard Cummingi (zio Bamey), Ivor McFadden (Percy), Bertram Grassby (Duca di Sauterne), Edward Jobson, William Mong. P.: Universal. D.:81’. 35mm.

Film notes

“Universal’s latest attraction, The Delicious Little Devilwhat would ordinarily be a conventionally ‘melodramatic story, but produced for comedy and ingeniously worked out to fit the dancing talents of Miss Murray…Admirably directed and some excellent supporting players. But the interiors, other than the roadhouse scenes, are crude and badly lighted. The feature is streched to 75 minutes. Reduced to a five-reeler the action world be smartened materially. It is a safe bet, people are interested in the story and grow restless when the telling of it is delayed. The story it self shows how Mary, masquerading as Gloria du Monde, found herself being mistaken for something that she was not. She was really a nice little girl, but the Duke du Sauterne, who knew the real Gloria very well, guessed she wasn’t and created complications from which she escapes in the end. In some ways the most exciting moment was when Mae got out of her bathrobe, but, luckily, a bathrobe was waiting for her”. (Variety,April 1919)

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Edition 1992
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Section Recovered & Restored