The Exquisite Sinner (1926)
Directed by Phil Rosen / Josef von Sternberg
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson
Josef von Sternberg had been the original director of Exquisite Sinner, but MGM was dissatisfied with the picture and refused to release it. When the film finally surfaced in 1926 (a full year after its completion), it had been radically altered by staff director Phil Rosen. Adapted by Alice Duer Miller from a novel by Alden Brooks, the film concerns a young man (Conrad Nagel) who forsakes the humdrum business world for the bohemian life of an artist. Renee Adoree co-stars as "The Gypsy Maid" who leads the hero merrily astray. Myrna Loy makes a brief, barely clothed appearance as "The Living Statue," the first of Josef Von Sternberg's many beautiful "mannequins," the most famous of whom would be Marlene Dietrich.
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boy, business, gypsy, maid, vagabond