Breakfast at Sunrise
1927 film
- October 23, 1927 (1927-10-23)
Breakfast at Sunrise is a 1927 silent film comedy directed by Malcolm St. Clair and produced by and starring Constance Talmadge. It was distributed by First National Pictures.[1][2][3]
Breakfast at Sunrise is one of the “sophisticated comedies” that St. Clair filmed of Paramount.[4] The film presents a “doubled-plot line” in which two couples “rivaling each other, respectively toast with champagne, and the dueling/doubling effect is achieved with cross-cutting.”[5]
Prints survive at George Eastman House and Library of Congress.[6]
Plot
Two denizens of a grand hotel nightclub, the rich and attractive Madeleine (Constance Talmadge), and the poor and handsome Marquis (Bryant Washburn) have a common desire: they wish to discipline their respective lovers by making them jealous: Madeleine, her betraying boyfriend Champignol (Albert Gran), and Marquis, his faithless mistress Loulou (Alice White), who performs at the nightclub.
Madeleine and Marquis enter into a conspiracy: they will publicly concoct a phony courtship, pretending to be in love. This charade is paralleled by dozens of nondescript people who have been hired by the hotel owner to parade about the nightclub in fancy dress. The purpose is to make the hotel appear prosperous to prospective customers. The entire hotel staff is operating under false pretenses: nobody is who he or she pretends to be. Madeleine and Marquis go so far as to stage a mock marriage to delude their lovers. In the end they abandon the deception, and genuinely fall in love with one another.[7]
Cast
- Constance Talmadge as Madeleine
- Bryant Washburn as Marquis
- Alice White as Loulou
- Paulette Duval as Georgiana
- Marie Dressler as Queen
- Albert Gran as Champignol
- Burr McIntosh as General
- David Mir - Prince
- Don Alvarado as Lussan
- Nellie Bly Baker as Madeleine's Maid
See also
- At Your Orders, Madame (1939)
Notes
- ^ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: Breakfast at Sunrise
- ^ Breakfast at Sunrise at silentera.com
- ^ Dwyer, 1996 p. 209: Filmography
- ^ Dwyer, 1996 p. 117
- ^ Dwyer, 1996 p. 119
- ^ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Breakfast at Sunrise
- ^ Dwyer, 1996 p. 209: Filmography, plot synopsis.
References
- Dwyer, Ruth Anne. 1996. Malcolm St. Clair: His Films, 1915-1948. The Scarecrow Press, Lantham, Md., and London. ISBN 0-8108-2709-3
External links
- Breakfast at Sunrise at IMDb
- allmovie/synopsis; Breakfast at Sunrise
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Films directed by Malcolm St. Clair
- Rip & Stitch: Tailors (1919)
- The Little Widow (1919)
- No Mother to Guide Him (1919)
- Hungry Lions and Tender Hearts (1920)
- He Loved Like He Lied (1920)
- His Youthful Fancy (1920)
- Don't Weaken! (1920)
- Welcome Home (1920)
- A Kitchen Cinderella (1920)
- Wedding Bells Out of Tune (1921)
- Sweetheart Days (1921)
- The Goat (1921)
- The Night Before (1921)
- Call a Cop (1921)
- Bright Eyes (1921)
- You'd Be Surprised (1922)
- Don't Be Foolish (1922)
- Wedding Dumb Bells (1922)
- The Blacksmith (1922)
- Their First Vacation (1922)
- Twin Husbands (1922)
- Entertaining the Boss (1922)
- Keep 'Em Home (1922)
- Christmas (1923)
- Fighting Blood (1923)
- The Knight in Gale (1923)
- The Knight That Failed (1923)
- Six Second Smith (1923)
- Two Stones with One Bird (1923)
- Some Punches and Judy (1923)
- Gall of the Wild (1923)
- Rice and Old Shoes (1923)
- The End of a Perfect Fray (1923)
- When Gale and Hurricane Meet (1923)
- Judy Punch (1923)
- George Washington Jr. (1924)
- Julius Sees Her (1924)
- When Knighthood Was in Tower (1924)
- Money to Burns (1924)
- King Leary (1924)
- William Tells (1924)
- Sherlock's Home (1924)
- For the Love of Mike (1924)
- The Square Sex (1924)
- Bee's Knees (1924)
- Find Your Man (1924)
- The Lighthouse by the Sea (1924)
- On Thin Ice (1925)
- Are Parents People? (1925)
- After Business Hours (1925)
- The Trouble with Wives (1925)
- A Woman of the World (1925)
- The Grand Duchess and the Waiter (1926)
- A Social Celebrity (1926)
- Good and Naughty (1926)
- The Show-Off (1926)
- The Popular Sin (1926)
- Knockout Reilly (1927)
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- Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1928)
- Sporting Goods (1928)
- Beau Broadway (1928)
- The Fleet's In (1928)
- The Canary Murder Case (1929)
- Side Street (1929)
- Welcome Danger (1929; uncredited)
- Night Parade (1929)
- Montana Moon (1930)
- Dangerous Nan McGrew (1930)
- Remote Control (1930; uncredited)
- The Boudoir Diplomat (1930)
- Olsen's Big Moment (1933)
- Goldie Gets Along (1933)
- Crack-Up (1936)
- Time Out for Romance (1937)
- Born Reckless (1937)
- She Had to Eat (1937)
- Dangerously Yours (1937)
- A Trip to Paris (1938)
- Safety in Numbers (1938)
- Down on the Farm (1938)
- Everybody's Baby (1939)
- The Jones Family in Hollywood (1939)
- Quick Millions (1939)
- Hollywood Cavalcade (1939)
- Young as You Feel (1940)
- Meet the Missus (1940)
- The Bashful Bachelor (1942)
- The Man in the Trunk (1942)
- Over My Dead Body (1942)
- Two Weeks to Live (1943)
- Jitterbugs (1943)
- The Dancing Masters (1943)
- Swing Out the Blues (1943)
- The Big Noise (1944)
- The Bullfighters (1945)
- Arthur Takes Over (1948)
- Fighting Back (1948)
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