Tell Me Pretty Maiden (1930)

With Marion Davies.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Tell
• Me
• Pretty
• Maiden
• Florodora
• Girls
• Gay
• Nineties
• song
• two-strip
• technicolor

[mvnkct]

When I lived with my grandparents as a 17-year-old, they told me so many fascinating stories about their youth. They were both born in 1883, and saw so many wonderful stage shows, riding in buggies pulled by horses, the first automobiles, telephones, phonographs, player pianos, and so much more. I still have wonderful photos of my grandmother - - WOW the changes in women's fashions! My grandfather told me about seeing this show and he sang some of it to me.

[calvinnme2]

I think this is a Technicolor sequence from 1930's "The Floradora Girl". Am I correct?

[Bunny2874]

Just as you were fascinated with ur granparents stories is how I felt with your life experiences and changes you shared with me this afternoon. Who would of thought u would have ever been on you tube?!Thanks for sharing Howard!

[ManilaSyndicate]

It's always nice to see colored film in it's early years - it's as close to viewing how people actually looked back then.

Marion Davies looked the charm. Attractive, silly woman.

[GeoStrum3]

They took great pains to recreate in exact detail the performance of the Pretty Maiden number I am told. So what we are watching was pretty close to how it actually was way back when.

[mikemcgee]

one of the technicolor layers is slightly shrunk making the skin tones of Marian Davies a bit pale. In her documentary ,on tcm . they got the original color negative and enhanced it to look three colors inspite of this , it was the color negative . they haven't remastered this in the original print yet

[lawalker7868]

Watched twice never saw Laurence Olivier in the audience - thanks for posting!

[albanybeardguy]

@Jotaemesg The film audience probably had some familiarity with the musical. It played for years and had even had a nostalgic revival in the 1920's- after the sextette they brought on a group of children to do the number as the Floradora Sextette of the Future.

[jrakg]

Laurence Olivier is seen as an audience member. - John Austin, Australia

[altobiotero]

Lovely technicolor !!

[paulj0557]

If you notice the audience cuts look much better than the stage shots. The exposure was much higher from the stage lights hitting the lighter colored costumes . It makes you wonder if playing the films caused severe damage because of the intense light. Would a film that was never shown before look far better than this one if it were played for the first time.