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Voidsville Follies

Works featuring "screwball comedy" (2)

A Shy Youth (Les timidités de Rigadin)

Georges Monca (director/writer)
Charles Prince (lead)
Mistinguett (lead)
Pathé (production)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in 1910, month unknown
Minutes: 8

A shy young man is sent to court a young lady, but ends up being allured by a servant pretending to be the absent young lady. Humorously highlighting class differences via a spirited and domineering woman that breaks down the reserve of a bourgeois man, this provides the basic framework of the screwball comedy (sans happy ending). Mistinguett steals the show, exuding the kind of earthy charm and humor that gave her fame.

Featured elements:

: comedy; comedy of manners; dance; farce; identity mix-up; screwball comedy; servitude

The Doll (Die Puppe)

Ernst Lubitsch (director/lead/writer)
Kurt Richter (art-director/costume-designer)
Theodor Sparkuhl (cinematographer)
Hanns Kräly (writer)
E.T.A. Hoffmann (author)
A.E. Willner (author)
Ossi Oswalda (lead)
Hermann Thimig (lead)
Victor Janson (lead)
Gerhard Ritterband (lead)
Jakob Tiedtke (lead)
Max Kronert (lead)
PAGU (production)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in Dec 1919
Minutes: 64

This is how a fairy tale should be told: lots of laughs, spiced with a few caustic truths, encompassing no moral at all, if you wish. Or, perhaps, a simple moral that is as easy to discard as it is to swallow (Another tale of gender role rejection: is this the sequel to I Dont Want To Be A Man? ). Multiple viewings are rewarding, as nothing is truly background - the gags are everywhere. It's a musical without sound that's an ensemble showcase, where everyone puts in a first-rate comic performance no matter how small the part - even the horses.

Featured elements:

: abuse; bride bounty; chase; comedy; comedy of manners; dance; family; fantasy; farce; flood de femmes; gold digger; identity mix-up; mama's boy; master-disciple; metatheatre; religion; romance; screwball comedy; servitude; slapstick; social commentary; unrequited love

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