Why Be Good? Take a Date

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Why Be Good?

(1929) - 84 min - NR

A young "flapper" and dance contest winner works at a department store in New York City by day. Unknowingly, she meets the owner's son the night before he is to begin working at the store.
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Colleen Moore, Neil Hamilton
Genre
Comedy, Romance, Silent

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This is the only surviving Colleen Moore film. Moore was the original "flapper" and at one point's the highest paid actress in movies with most but not all of her career in the silent film era. If you get a chance to see Why Be Good?, you must. It is the best silent film I have seen. Pert Kelly dances up a storm and wins every dance contest in sight. She "appears" to be a "fast" girl because that is what sell, she believes. But she goes to a lot of trouble to appear to be bad even though she is, in fact, a good girl. One night she meets the Junior Mr Peabody who is to start work the next day as Personnel manager at this father's department store. The musical score from this film also survives and it is remarkable how it mirrors and reacts to the action on screen. Moore is a charmer. Please see it if it becomes available. If it is voted an audience favorite it may show this Wednesday, October 22 at the Chicago International Film Festival.

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