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Parisian Pleasures

1927103 minFranceGermany
Drama

Synopsis

A seamstress hoping to become a dancer wins a nightclub talent contest and enters the world of Parisian revue. Her rising career complicates a romance with another performer. Around that story, the film presents an extended tour of stage acts, costumes, dancers and spectacles from the city's nightlife.

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Wikimedia Commons
Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
102:24
Subtitles
No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

Languages and subtitles

No subtitle track in this language

Wikimedia Commons · Joe Francis / Clément Vautel · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsJoe Francis

Historical context

Josephine Baker appears in two performances within the revue material. The film offers a screen record of Jazz Age entertainment, using its fictional backstage romance to connect a succession of largely self-contained attractions.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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