Enchantment (1921) 🏆 (sub EN+ESP) Marion Davies

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Release date: October 30, 1921
The film was the winner of the Photoplay Awards for
Best Pictures of the Month (February 1922) 🏆
Synopsis:
Inspired by a staging of William Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew, Marion Davies plays Ethel, the spoiled-brat daughter of millionaire Mr. Hoyt (Tom Lewis). Mr. Hoyt decides that a rough-and-tumble he-man might be able to straighten out his daughter. To that end, the millionaire hires Ernest Eddison (Forrest Stanley), the actor playing Petruchio in Shrew. Ernest talks Ethel into auditioning for an amateur production of Sleeping Beauty, then runs her roughshod during rehearsals. Ethel is on the verge of exploding when Ernest finally wins her over with a lulu of a third-act kiss.
Production was highlighted by a massive pageant set designed by Joseph Urban. Generally considered to be the first American film to extensively use Art Deco designs for sets. Designer Joseph Urban was hired by producer William Randolph Hearst specifically to work on the films of Marion Davies.
Possibly the first film to use the term "male flapper" in reference to the college boys who flock around Marion Davies.
A print of the film exists in the Library of Congress in Washington.
Since November 2014 it has been available on DVD, mastered from the copy preserved in the Library of Congress (35 mm positive) with musical accompaniment by Ben Model, and again in August 2017. Currently you can see it in digital format.

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Marion Davies was a much better actor than often given credit for. Cosmopolitan Productions was owned by her lover, William Randolph Hearst, who promoted her career well into the 1940's. The relationship was fictionalized in Orson Welles' 1941 masterpiece "Citizen Kane".