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Date:
August 11, 2012 7:30 pm
Venue:
New Beverly Cinema
Address:
7165 W. Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90036, United States
My Best Girl

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My Best Girl (1927) is a romantic comedy starring Mary Pickford and Buddy Rogers, directed by Sam Taylor, and produced by Pickford. Joe Merrill, son of the millionaire owner of a chain of 5 and 10 cent stores, poses as Joe Grant, and takes a job in the stockroom of one of his father’s stores, to prove that he can be a success without his father’s influence. There he meets stockroom girl Maggie Johnson, and they fall in love. This causes problems, because Mrs. Merrill had planned for her son to marry Millicent Rogers, a high society girl. (7:30PM)

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Sparrows is a 1926 American silent film about a young woman who rescues a baby from kidnappers. The film (originally titledScraps) starred and was produced by Mary Pickford. Evil Mr.Grimes keeps a rag-tag bunch orphans on his farm deep in a swamp in the US South. He forces them to work in his garden and treats them like slaves. They are watched over by the eldest, Molly. A gang in league with Mr. Grimes kidnaps Doris, the beautiful little daughter of a rich man, and hides her out on Grimes’ farm, awaiting ransom. When the police close in, and Mr. Grimes threatens to throw Doris into the bottomless mire, Molly must lead her little flock out through the alligator-infested swamp. (9:10PM)

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