Three women performing in a Broadway show face temptation, love, money, betrayal and tragedy as the cost of fame.Three women performing in a Broadway show face temptation, love, money, betrayal and tragedy as the cost of fame.Three women performing in a Broadway show face temptation, love, money, betrayal and tragedy as the cost of fame.
- Awards
- 2 wins
Aggie Herring
- Mrs. O'Brien
- (as Aggie Herrin)
Jane Arden
- Chorus Girl
- (uncredited)
Lialani Deas
- Specialty Performer
- (uncredited)
Dorothy Dunbar
- Chorus Girl
- (uncredited)
Bess Flowers
- Party Reveler
- (uncredited)
Dixie Harkins
- Party Reveler
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaSally panics, after dropping on the sidewalk and breaking the mirror of her make-up compact, believing this will bring her bad luck. She spots a hunchbacked newspaper vendor, and touches his hump to bring her "good luck," to the man's annoyance. The superstition dates from ancient Greece, but still in the early 20th century some baseball teams hired "hunchbacks" to bring good luck. This cruel superstition is forgotten in the 21st Century, but 1925 audiences would have howled with laughter at the "gag."
- Quotes
Marcus Morton: I want to marry you! I love you... I really love you!
Mary: Applesauce!
- ConnectionsFeatured in Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star (2002)
Featured review
Star Maker
This 1925 MGM film helped make mega-stars of Constance Bennett, Joan Crawford, and William Haines. A Jazz-Age story of Broadway and three chorus girls in a show at the Dainties Theater, writer/director Edmund Goulding mines what was already a cliche in 1925 in the story of the good, the bad, and the innocent.
Bennett plays Sally, the lead chorus girl at the Dainties and the long-time girlfriend of Marcus Morton (Henry Kolker), a rich millionaire who collects chorus girls. Her cushy life is threatened when sweet young thing Mary (O'Neil) shows up as the "new girl." But she already has a boyfriend (Haines). Then there's Irene (Crawford), who dreams of a great love.
The plot follows jealous Sally trying to dump Mary and hold on to Marcus while Crawford tries to keep the peace. Jazz parties at Sally's wild apartment include loud music and lots of girls and men. Set and costume designs by Cedric Gibbons, Merrill Pye, and Erte, perfectly capture the era.
Subplot has Haines mooning over the loss of Mary to the wild life while their mothers (Kate Price, Aggie Herring --billed as Herrin) squabble. Everything is resolved by an unforeseen tragedy.
The three stars are all terrific, with Crawford getting to do her famous Charleston in the stage show. Haines is also a standout. Price and Herring are funny as the squabbling mothers, and Kolker is appropriately slimy as the cad.
The only bad news is the "special effects" in the climax, which seems pretty cheap and obvious for an MGM film.
Bennett plays Sally, the lead chorus girl at the Dainties and the long-time girlfriend of Marcus Morton (Henry Kolker), a rich millionaire who collects chorus girls. Her cushy life is threatened when sweet young thing Mary (O'Neil) shows up as the "new girl." But she already has a boyfriend (Haines). Then there's Irene (Crawford), who dreams of a great love.
The plot follows jealous Sally trying to dump Mary and hold on to Marcus while Crawford tries to keep the peace. Jazz parties at Sally's wild apartment include loud music and lots of girls and men. Set and costume designs by Cedric Gibbons, Merrill Pye, and Erte, perfectly capture the era.
Subplot has Haines mooning over the loss of Mary to the wild life while their mothers (Kate Price, Aggie Herring --billed as Herrin) squabble. Everything is resolved by an unforeseen tragedy.
The three stars are all terrific, with Crawford getting to do her famous Charleston in the stage show. Haines is also a standout. Price and Herring are funny as the squabbling mothers, and Kolker is appropriately slimy as the cad.
The only bad news is the "special effects" in the climax, which seems pretty cheap and obvious for an MGM film.
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- Kunskapens träd
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- Runtime1 hour 15 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
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By what name was Sally, Irene and Mary (1925) officially released in Canada in English?
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