Kitty: (blithely) I was reading a book the other day.
Carlotta: (stepping back) Reading a book?
Kitty: Yes.

The Image: The very funny, but somehow touching end to the picture. Sort of reminds me of a film by Renoir as the aristocrats all file out of the reception room - lives forever altered yet essentially intact...

And that wonderful lurch that Marie Dressler (Carlotta) offers the camera (https://aestheticoftheimage1.files.wo...) when Jean Harlow announces she has read a book - priceless.
I like it when the doors close at the very end of the film (https://aestheticoftheimage1.files.wo...) and then the END intertitle appears (https://aestheticoftheimage1.files.wo...) - classy and reassuring.
[This clip is a little present for Brenda Lester]

'The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.' (Oscar Wilde)
Oh, Old Hollywood!
(George Cukor looked like this: https://prod-images.tcm.com/Master-Pr...)

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