Lady for a Day

Lady for a Day
by Frank Capra

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Actor: Glenda Farrell, Guy Kibbee, May Robson, Ned Sparks, Warren William
Director: Frank Capra
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 92 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-10-23
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Image Entertainment

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Movie Review: Moral of the story: lying works.
Summary: 2 Stars

Drunkard / street beggar Annie has been stealing hotel stationary for years and writing her daughter (who lives in Spain) letters full of extravagant lies about how she's a rich member NYC's high society. But Annie's cows are about to come home to roost because her daughter is coming to visit with her fianc?e and his father Count Romero. Around this point logic is thrown far, far out the window never to return.

The use of the mushrooming lie can be used to great comic effect (HAIL THE CONQUERING HERO is a perfect example), but I have three problems with LADY FOR A DAY. First instead of going for the laughs it goes for the touching melodrama instead...unless they were going for the laughs and I just didn't notice. Secondly I feel no sympathy for the main character she brought all of this on herself by lying and my final problem is how completely unbelievable the conclusion was. Hey, let's reward her for being a s#!++y parent!

Also Nat Pendleton and Walter Connolly are completely wasted with small unimportant roles. If all that's not bad enough the picture on the "remastered" DVD sucks. It's hard to believe that Capra went from making this stinker to IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT just a few months later.

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Summary of Lady for a Day

A Cinderella fairy tale set in the early 1930s, Lady for a Day is a delightfully charming mix of drama and comedy that earned four Academy Award nominations and propelled Frank Capra to the top ranks of popular filmmakers. Based on a Damon Runyon short story, Lady for a Day tells the tale of Apple Annie, a cantankerous New York City fruit peddler who has been pretending to be a high-society matron in letters to her daughter. When her daughter comes to visit with her aristocratic fiance, Apple Annie enlists her seedy gangster friends, who hilariously transform her into the grandest of dames!

Based on a story by Damon Runyon, this Frank Capra film was nominated for several Oscars? after it was released in 1933 (it was remade by Capra as Pocketful of Miracles in 1961). A tenderhearted Depression-era comedy, it tells the story of Apple Annie (May Robson), a panhandling street vendor who has kept her real identity hidden from a daughter being reared in Europe. When the grown-up daughter comes to New York for a visit, Annie turns to gambler Dave the Dude (Warren William) for help. He transforms her--temporarily--into a high-society grande dame, but not without complications. The film is nearly stolen by Guy Kibbee, as a judge posing as Annie's husband, but Warren William, a John Barrymore lookalike, and dour Ned Sparks get laughs too. --Marshall Fine

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