A press agent attempts to secure a photograph of the star's knees. She refuses this honor, but when he will not take a refusal, she palms off on him the photograph of another girl, a regular frump.
"Bee's Knees": A Sparkling, Subversive Silent Comedy on Deception and Dazzle In the bustling, often superficial world of early 20th-century celebrity, where public image was meticulously crafted and consumed with voracious appetite, a cinematic trifle like "Bee's Knees" emerges not merely as a relic o...
Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
Malcolm St. Clair
Richard Smith
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" "Bee's Knees": A Sparkling, Subversive Silent Comedy on Deception and Dazzle In the bustling, often superficial world of early 20th-century celebrity, where public image was meticulously crafted and consumed with voracious appetite, a cinematic trifle like "Bee's Knees" emerges not merely as a relic of forgotten laughter but as a surprisingly incisive commentary on human foibles. This 1923 short, a vibrant testament to the era's burgeoning obsession with sensationalism and the ..."
H.C. Witwer
United States
