A birthday party for the child of Ben Lyon and Bebe Daniels, which is attended by innumerable attractive film colony children, who are watched and cared for by such parents as Benny Rubin, Joe E. Brown, and others.
Ralph Staub
United States
Is this worth your time? Honestly? Only if you are a massive fan of old-school Hollywood trivia or if you enjoy the strange, uncanny feeling of watching 90-year-old home movies. If you want a structured narrative, skip this. If you want to see what 1930s children’s birthday parties looked like when their parents were m...
Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
Ralph Staub
Edgar Jones
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"Is this worth your time? Honestly? Only if you are a massive fan of old-school Hollywood trivia or if you enjoy the strange, uncanny feeling of watching 90-year-old home movies. If you want a structured narrative, skip this. If you want to see what 1930s children’s birthday parties looked like when their parents were major studio stars, you might find it oddly charming. It’s barely ten minutes long, which is a mercy. Ralph Staub basically just points a camera at a group of well-dressed people a..."
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