Forgotten Women (aka The Mad Parade)



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DVD-R Details
- Run Time: 1 hours
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: March 1, 2016
- Originally Released: 1931
- Label: Alpha Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Evelyn Brent, Irene Rich, June Clyde & Louise Fazenda | |
Performer: | Marceline Day, Fritzi Ridgeway & Lilyan Tashman | |
Directed by | William Beaudine |
Entertainment Reviews:
Description by OLDIES.com:
Similar to George Cukor's later The Women (1939) male actors are never actually shown in this film, only seen from behind or heard through voiceover. Screenwriters Gertrude Orr and Doris Malloy based the screenplay (with the working title Women Like Men) on their real-life experiences as ambulance drivers during WWI. Wary of the story's downbeat nature and emphasis on a woman's perspective, every major studio turned down the script. Finally, Herbert M. Gumbin of small-time Liberty Pictures took a chance and bought the rights. Much of the budget was then spent procuring a high-profile cast including Evelyn Brent, Irene Rich, Louise Fazenda, June Clyde, and Marceline Day. After money ran out in spring of 1931, Paramount took over production from Liberty. Heavily publicized at the time of its release, the picture initially bore the title The Mad Parade (a play on The Big Parade, the 1925 John Gilbert WWI drama that is considered by many to be the most successful film of the silent era.) Despite the fact that another WWI film, All Quiet on the Western Front, had won the Oscar for Best Picture the previous year, The Mad Parade was perhaps too ahead of its time in 1931. Regardless, it would be re-released in 1936 as Forgotten Women, and again in 1940 as War Angels (other prints bear the provocative title Nine Girls and Hell.) Alpha Video is proud to present to this unique, one-of-a-kind film, from the collection of John K. Carpenter, "The Movie Man."
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 46,071
- UPC: 089218776396
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