Bart Andrews loves well-to-do society girl Ann Wesley, but reproaches her for her frivolity, believing that she conceals a better self within her personality. Her fortune is lost in a stock-market panic, and she retires.
The Hidden Woman glides across the screen like a champagne flute balanced on a fault line: effervescent, perilous, impossible to forget once it shatters. The year is 1927, months before the real-world crash that will splatter confetti over Wall Street sidewalks. Director Murdock MacQuarrie—also starring as the prigg...
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" The Hidden Woman glides across the screen like a champagne flute balanced on a fault line: effervescent, perilous, impossible to forget once it shatters. The year is 1927, months before the real-world crash that will splatter confetti over Wall Street sidewalks. Director Murdock MacQuarrie—also starring as the priggish yet magnetic Bart Andrews—builds his morality play inside candle-lit ballrooms where Charleston heels bruise marble floors and fortunes are whispered into existence over brandy..."
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