Even by 1927 Colleen Moore was tiring and trying to avoid flapper roles - after immersing herself and getting critical praise for her starring role
in "So Big" she felt she had earned her dramatic stripes but First National was in the middle of a flapper frenzy and she was the star who typified
that. And she was right to feel aggrieved - even though many of her films are missing, this is pretty light weight and obviously made at the height of
her popularity when just her name on a poster would have sold tickets.
She is Pinks Watson, a switchboard operator for Gotham Cement whose dreams of orchids and ermine and rich he-flappers takes her to the Deluxe Hotel where her lack of artifice gets her a job as the receptionist!! Once on the job she becomes the innocent pupil of gold digging Ermitrude of the notions counter and Gwen Lee almost steals the movie. She prances and poses and already on Pink's first day has a millionaire for them both to take for a ride - unfortunately he takes them as he is only a chauffeur!!
In a plotline so old it has whiskers, millionaire Richard Tabor (Jack Mulhall) is fed up with the fortune hunters so he changes places with his valet (Sam Hardy) who thinks he has all the right moves and wise cracks. The climax of the movie has Hardy marrying Ermitrude but because he is still using the Richard Tabor name his picture is splashed over the front page which makes it very hard for the real Tabor to prove his identity. Apart from Mickey Rooney, even at seven, frighteningly professional as a flirtatious cigar smoking midget, there is Hedda Hopper as a modiste and Alma Bennett as a vamp. Gwen Lee almost steals the show!!
She is Pinks Watson, a switchboard operator for Gotham Cement whose dreams of orchids and ermine and rich he-flappers takes her to the Deluxe Hotel where her lack of artifice gets her a job as the receptionist!! Once on the job she becomes the innocent pupil of gold digging Ermitrude of the notions counter and Gwen Lee almost steals the movie. She prances and poses and already on Pink's first day has a millionaire for them both to take for a ride - unfortunately he takes them as he is only a chauffeur!!
In a plotline so old it has whiskers, millionaire Richard Tabor (Jack Mulhall) is fed up with the fortune hunters so he changes places with his valet (Sam Hardy) who thinks he has all the right moves and wise cracks. The climax of the movie has Hardy marrying Ermitrude but because he is still using the Richard Tabor name his picture is splashed over the front page which makes it very hard for the real Tabor to prove his identity. Apart from Mickey Rooney, even at seven, frighteningly professional as a flirtatious cigar smoking midget, there is Hedda Hopper as a modiste and Alma Bennett as a vamp. Gwen Lee almost steals the show!!