Young starlet Peggy Peppet (Marion Davies) wants to stay in the theatre after the preview of her film. She’s watching a drama which considers it as “real art”, expressing her wishes to make similar films – but William Haines disagrees. The clip shown is from a film that King Vidor had made two years ago, Bardelys the Magnificent, which was considered lost until 2006 when a nearly complete print was found in France. Before that print, Bardely’s trailer and this scene were the only visual proofs of its existence.
King Vidor’s Bardelys the Magnificent (1926) in King Vidor’s Show People (1928).
