"Her Cardboard Lover" provided a solid role for both Jeanne Eagels
on Broadway and Tallulah Bankhead on the West End. The Broadway
edition lasted a very respectable 152 performances. For a Marion
Davies movie it is a crime that it is not restored - the softness and
"underwater" look take away a lot of the feeling of fun that this movie
would have had!!
Davies plays Sally, a frivolous flapper who is passionate about her hobby
There is just the funniest sequence, as a last ditch effort Sally dresses up as Simone as part of an aversion therapy technique - Marion is hilarious!! It's honestly so hard to tell both actresses apart and Jetta, even though she had the reputation as one of Hollywood's most temperamental actresses, had so much fun with the skit - even designing Marion's costume. Many thought that Jetta, by 1927, was a has-been but dear Marion came to her rescue with a part of the femme fatale in "The Cardboard Lover". Marion's niece Pepi Lederer can't be missed as an enthusiastic school chum at the hotel desk.
Davies plays Sally, a frivolous flapper who is passionate about her hobby
- collecting autographs and when she is thwarted in her first attemps to
- yes, Marion gives of herself 110% but Asther shows such a sense of
There is just the funniest sequence, as a last ditch effort Sally dresses up as Simone as part of an aversion therapy technique - Marion is hilarious!! It's honestly so hard to tell both actresses apart and Jetta, even though she had the reputation as one of Hollywood's most temperamental actresses, had so much fun with the skit - even designing Marion's costume. Many thought that Jetta, by 1927, was a has-been but dear Marion came to her rescue with a part of the femme fatale in "The Cardboard Lover". Marion's niece Pepi Lederer can't be missed as an enthusiastic school chum at the hotel desk.