Though betrothed to fellow socialite Richard, Iris weds her chauffeur Tom, leaving Richard to marry the family laundress' daughter Shamrock. Class differences lead to divorces and remarriages.


A century ago, when champagne was illegal and hips still dared to sway, Cecil B. DeMille uncorked Saturday Night—a film whose very title drips with irony: every sequined minute unspools the death of an era rather than the carouse it promises. The reels, once thought lost in a lab fire, resurfaced two years ago in a P...

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Cecil B. DeMille

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" A century ago, when champagne was illegal and hips still dared to sway, Cecil B. DeMille uncorked Saturday Night—a film whose very title drips with irony: every sequined minute unspools the death of an era rather than the carouse it promises. The reels, once thought lost in a lab fire, resurfaced two years ago in a Parisian basement, nitrate kisses intact, and they detonate on contact like a perfume atomizer filled with gunpowder. Plot as Palimpsest The story—deceptively triangular—folds in o..."
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