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Film · Mabel Normand Feature Film Company · 1918

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Mickey

26Leave it.

If you find a print, it's Normand as a tomboy heiress, and that 8 million is a claim.

Take controlThis scores 26. Mickey cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it

The review

Mabel Normand plays a western tomboy who turns out to be an heiress. That's the picture. A house can watch it if a print is to hand. The star is why the name is still said.

The dollar story is louder than the comedy. A figure of 8 million is still repeated. It is a claim, not a studio ledger, and I will not print it as a fact of the till. A big number makes a small remembered film sound like an event. The event, if you can find the print, is her. Don't let a repeated claim do the remembering.

Journal

Keep Mickey in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 26. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Truth and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

Everyone Is Lying to You for Money

38 instead of 26

Everyone Is Lying to You for Money is still a comedy film, and it scores 38 instead of 26. What you gain is truth: The title tells a true thing, which is rare on a poster.

The eight

2
Industry
A western tomboy turns out to be an heiress, so a fortune replaces work.
3
Household
The reveal is an inheritance, not a marriage, a parent, or a child.
2
Piety
The comedy never turns on a conscience that could stop anyone.
3
Courage
Tomboy manners are the flavor, not a risk she stands to lose.
2
Republic
No neighbor, law, or town has a claim on the heiress story.
3
Temperance
A repeated 8 million is a louder want than the comedy itself can feed.
3
Truth
The 8 million figure is a claim, not a number from a studio ledger.
3
Stewardship
What remains is the star, and only if a print is still to hand.

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Film · MGM · 1958

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Gigi

26Leave it.

A best picture. The training is the rot, and the marriage at the end does not redeem the school.

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The review

It won the best picture of its year, and the award does not change the curriculum. A grandmother and an aunt are training a young woman in Paris to be the mistress of a rich man: how to choose jewels, how to behave at the table, how to be expensive. The young man who has been wandering through other such arrangements decides he wants this one, and the happy ending is that he marries her instead. The film expects the marriage to retire the question.

It does not. The school was the story, and the school is a preparation of a girl for a man's use. The songs are lovely and the loveliness is the danger, because loveliness is how the curriculum gets past a room. I would not put it on for a young woman as a charming antique. If adults watch it as history, say what the aunt was actually teaching before the last waltz. The last waltz is not a pardon.