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Pretty Ladies is a american film of genre Drama directed by Monta Bell released in USA on 6 september 1925 with Zasu Pitts
Pretty Ladies (1925)
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Add to a movie listPretty Ladies is a 1925 American silent comedy-drama film starring ZaSu Pitts and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film is a fictional recreation of the famed Ziegfeld Follies. Directed by Monta Bell, the film was written by Alice D.G. Miller and featured intertitles written by Joseph Farnham.
Pretty Ladies originally featured musical color sequences, some in two-strip Technicolor. However, the color sequences are now considered lost.
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Maggie (ZaSu Pitts) is a popular Ziegfeld Follies dancing comedienne whose husband leaves her for one of the show's beauties, and who longs for the life of other chorus girls but eventually finds love by being herself.Actors
Zasu Pitts
(Maggie Keenan)
Conrad Nagel
(Maggie's Dream Lover)
Tom Moore
(Al Cassidy)
Joan Crawford
(Bobby)
Ann Pennington
(Herself)
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