Playthings of Desire
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DVD-R Details
- Run Time: 1 hours, 9 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: July 7, 2015
- Originally Released: 1933
- Label: Alpha Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | James Kirkwood & Linda Watkins | |
Performer: | Ford Sterling, Reed Howes & Molly O'Day | |
Directed by | George Melford |
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Description by OLDIES.com:
Playthings of Desire is one of only 3 movies produced by the short-lived Sun Haven Studios (the others being Hired Wife and Chloe, both released in 1934.) Located in St. Petersburg, Florida, Sun Haven used minor Hollywood players as the lead actors in their productions. James Kirkwood began his career in D.W. Griffith pictures such as A Corner in Wheat (1909) and Home, Sweet Home (1914). Moving behind the camera, he became a favorite of Mary Pickford's, directing her in Cinderella (1914) and Fanchon the Cricket (1915). Despite this, he would continue acting well into the 1950s. Female lead Linda Watkins' career as a Hollywood ingenue was relatively short-lived, but she found success twenty years later playing matronly roles in films such as From Hell It Came (1957) and The Parent Trap (1961). Supporting player Ford Sterling had been one of the original Keystone Kops. George Melford also directed Rudolph Valentino in The Sheik (1921), as well as the Spanish version of Dracula (1931).
BONUS: Going Spanish (BW, 1934): Bob Hope makes his film debut in this short comedy from Educational Pictures. Hope plays a clueless tourist who gets into trouble when he accidentally wrecks a limousine belonging to the mayor of a small Spanish village. Starring Bob Hope. Directed by Al Christie.
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- Sales Rank: 6,891
- UPC: 089218766199
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