The Lion's Whiskers

In the height of the 1920s studio system, a screen 'vamp'—the era's archetype of predatory female allure—navigates a precarious double life that threatens her lucrative career. While her public persona is built on the myth of the unattainable, dangerous bachelorette, she has secretly wed her own chauffeur. This clandestine union flies in the face of a strict 'morality clause' in her motion-picture contract, which explicitly forbids marriage to maintain her box-office mystique. What begins as a domestic comedy of errors quickly escalates into a frantic slapstick survival game when a literal lion enters the fray, forcing the couple to balance the terror of a wild predator with the looming threat of professional ruin. It is a cynical yet zany look at the artificiality of Hollywood stardom, where a hidden husband is as dangerous as a big cat in the living room.