Date and Time for this Past Event
- Sunday, Nov 12, 2023 5:45pm - 7:45pm
Details
AFI’s Silent Cinema Showcase returns with another selection of newly restored screen classics and rare gems from the silent era. Does it pay to be good or is it better to be bad? Long considered lost, Colleen Moore's final silent film has recently been restored. Moore plays Pert Kelly, a fun-loving flapper with a reputation as a party girl who's in fact quite down-to-earth and respectable. Late for her department store job after a wild night out, Pert gets fired — by the very man she was cavorting with the previous night, Winthrop Peabody, Jr. (Neil Hamilton)! This puts a wrinkle in the date they had made for the following night — but love finds a way. The original Vitaphone soundtrack features tracks by hot jazz greats Jimmy Dorsey, Phil Napoleon, Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang.
