Coquette (1929)
Directed by Sam Taylor
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Synopsis by Andrea LeVasseur
Coquette is Mary Pickford's first talkie, based on the play by George Abbott and Ann Preston Bridgers. The story was already made famous on the stage by star Helen Hayes. At almost 40 years old and lacking her signature curls, Pickford plays the young Southern belle Norma Besant, who is courting three different men: Stanley (Matt Moore), Robert (George S. Irving), and bad boy Michael Jeffrey (Johnny Mack Brown). She naturally falls for Michael and flees with him to a cottage. Her angry father, Dr. John Besant (John M. St. Polis), follows them with a gun, and violence ensues. Superstar Pickford won Best Actress at the 1930 Academy awards.
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family, flirtation, forbidden-love, generation-gap, killing, perjury, shoot-out, social-classes, suicide, suicide-attempt, tragic-love, wealth
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High Artistic Quality