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Stage Struck

192587 minUnited States
Comedy

Synopsis

Waitress Jennie loves a restaurant cook whose admiration is reserved for actresses. She studies performance and imagines herself onstage, hoping to become the kind of woman he notices. The effort brings theatrical ambition into the practical world of a river-town restaurant.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
84:30
Subtitles
No subtitle track in this language

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

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Wikimedia Commons · Allan Dwan · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsAllan Dwan

Behind the scenes

Allan Dwan filmed much of Gloria Swanson's comedy in New Martinsville, West Virginia. Technicolor opening and closing passages distinguish the production's fantasy of performance from much of its ordinary setting.

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