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Fig Leaves


Date: 1926
Type: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Rating: 3 Stars 3/5
Colour: Black and White / Silent
Director: Howard Hawkes
Producer: Howard Hawkes

Comment/Synopsis

The wife of a plumber who longs for more dresses gets the chance to model dresses for an up market designer whilst her neighbour has designs on her husband. The film is bookended with similar characters in the Garden of Enden playing out the same scenario. There are some good comic scenes and a good performance from Olive Borden. Three quaters of the way through the film there is a long fashion show that today just drags the film. This was originally filmed in 2-strip Technicolor, although little remanains of the colour version. This was Howard Hawkes's second film (the first one now being lost).

Actors


George O'Brien
Olive BordenOlive Borden
Phyllis Haver
George BerangerGeorge Beranger
William AustinWilliam Austin
Heinie Conklin
Eulalie Jensen

Oscars

None
Production
Fox Film Corporation