(1931)
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Hans J. Wollstein
Hilariously miscast, Mae Murray is actually referred to as being "young" several times in High Stakes. We shall probably never know what possessed Lowell Sherman to cast the aging diva in this her final starring role, but the results are entertainingly silly. Not that Sherman is any great prize himself; rather effete and overly made up, the veteran lothario knows how to deliver a line, but his type had more or less vanished along with silent pictures. Yet here they both are, constantly attempting to upstage each other and letting the chips fall where they may.
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High Stakes (1931)
