Inheriting from her French grandmother a taste for midnight adventure, Renée de Quiros sets out to win a young American diplomat visiting Mexico. An outlaw, João, raids her home, killing her father, and later obtains her uncle's consent to marry her, but she escapes her enemies and is united with the American for a midnight wedding.
The silent era was rarely as effervescent or as perilously poised between whimsy and visceral violence as in the 1924 production of Mademoiselle Midnight. This was a period when the 'Gardenia of the Screen,' Mae Murray, reigned supreme, her bee-stung lips and idiosyncratic dancing providing a visual short...
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" The silent era was rarely as effervescent or as perilously poised between whimsy and visceral violence as in the 1924 production of Mademoiselle Midnight. This was a period when the 'Gardenia of the Screen,' Mae Murray, reigned supreme, her bee-stung lips and idiosyncratic dancing providing a visual shorthand for a specific brand of Jazz Age decadence. Yet, in this particular vehicle, the decadence is filtered through a lens of atavistic inheritance and revolutionary Mexican fervor..."
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