Teddy Gloucester, one of the group of jazz age "nice people," is caught in a farmhouse during a storm with her intoxicated companion, Scotty. A stranger (Billy Wade) also seeking shelter saves her from Scotty's unwelcome attentions but not from the scandal which results from her father's discovery of her and Scotty--alone--the next morning.
Clara Beranger, Rachel Crothers
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Nice People (1922): A Whisper of Scandal in the Roaring Twenties Ah, the Jazz Age. A period often romanticized for its flappers, its forbidden speakeasies, and its audacious defiance of Victorian prudishness. Yet, beneath the glittering veneer of newfound freedoms and bobbed hair, a rigid societal code still ...
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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
William C. de Mille
William C. de Mille
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" Nice People (1922): A Whisper of Scandal in the Roaring Twenties Ah, the Jazz Age. A period often romanticized for its flappers, its forbidden speakeasies, and its audacious defiance of Victorian prudishness. Yet, beneath the glittering veneer of newfound freedoms and bobbed hair, a rigid societal code still held sway, particularly for women. Enter Nice People, a cinematic artifact from 1922, a film that peels back the layers of this fascinating epoch to reveal the hypocrisy and the ha..."
