Silent Cinema

Get Your Man

+ panel discussion on Dorothy Arzner’s silent films

Arzner and Bow’s first collaboration is a triumphant celebration of female sexuality.

We are delighted to announce that season curator Caroline Cassin and film historian Pamela Hutchinson will join the discussion hosted by Bryony Dixon, BFI National Archive curator.

  • Director

    Dorothy Arzner

  • With

    Clara Bow, Charles Rogers, Josef Swickard, Josephine Dunn

  • USA 1927. c53min. Total running time 95min

  • 35mm

Variety (12 Oct., 1927) referred to this picture as an ‘all-woman production’ directed by Arzner, scripted by Hope Loring and Alice Brand Leahy, with choreographer Marion Morgan and business manager Henrietta Cohn. In this rare survivor from Arzner’s silent work, Bow charms as Nancy, an American in Paris who falls for engaged nobleman Robert and hatches an elaborate plan to get her man. Its success led to Arzner being entrusted with Bow’s first talkie.

With live piano accompaniment by Meg Morley.

Restored by the Library of Congress.

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