Stranded showgirl Rose rescues a goose from her fellow cast members and employs it as her partner in a local amateur show. After winning first prize, Rose meets a wealthy young man who buys her a late supper, finds her accommodations on a farm adjoining his father's estate, and becomes a farmhand to win her love.
The first time we see Rose she is reflected, warped and aqueous, in the chrome of a dressing-room light, a fractured starlet already half-myth. The Smart Sex—a title that snaps with Jazz-Age sarcasm—never bothers to explain how its heroine’s ostracized showgirl ends up on a muddy back-road; it simply drops her there...
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Fred LeRoy Granville
Hal Roach
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" The first time we see Rose she is reflected, warped and aqueous, in the chrome of a dressing-room light, a fractured starlet already half-myth. The Smart Sex—a title that snaps with Jazz-Age sarcasm—never bothers to explain how its heroine’s ostracized showgirl ends up on a muddy back-road; it simply drops her there like a spangled bird with clipped wings, then watches her molt into something fierce. Director Emma Bell Clifton, armed with a script co-penned by serial queen Doris Schroeder, t..."
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Emma Bell Clifton, Doris Schroeder
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