Coquette
Coquette

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- 55/100 based on 2,274 votes
  • Released: 1929
  • Runtime: 76 mins
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  • Studio: United Artists
  • Genres: Drama

Norma Besant, daughter of a Southern doctor, is an incorrigible flirt and has many boys on her string. She begins to favor Michael Jeffrey, who, shiftless and hot-tempered but fundamentally honorable, is warned off by her father. When Michael returns after a long absence, the pair are innocently compromised, and Dr. Besant's old-South paternal rage brings tragedy.... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Coquette:

Mary Pickford
Johnny Mack Brown
Matt Moore
John St. Polis
William Janney
Henry Kolker

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Norma Besant, daughter of a Southern doctor, is an incorrigible flirt and has many boys on her string. She begins to favor Michael Jeffrey, who, shiftless and hot-tempered but fundamentally honorable, is warned off by her father. When Michael returns after a long absence, the pair are innocently compromised, and Dr. Besant's old-South paternal rage brings tragedy.

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Nick's Flick Picks - 6/10 by Nick DavisI guess 1929 audiences knew a stinker when they saw one coming. There is very little to criticize in Coquette, because there is so little in it, period.
EmanuelLevy.Com - 6/10 by Emanuel LevyVet silent actress Mary Pickford won her first and Only Best Actress Oscar for this melodrama, done better on stage with Helen Hayes.
Goatdog's Movies - 4/10 by Michael W. Phillips, Jr.The film is very stagy, the characters don't move around a lot, there is little editing within the scene, and the actors overact.
User Review - 8/10 by Antonius BIn watching 'Coquette', you have to cut it some slack for having been made in 1929, when acting was generally hammy and plots were a little thin. Mary Pickford does her share of over-emoting, but she also has a couple of brilliant scenes while grieving, really letting go, and showing she was ahead of her time as an actor. At 37, she also pulls off the look of a young flapper, and is so cute with her short hair and standing 5'1". John St. Polis plays the part of her father well, the Southern gentleman who must look out for the family's honor, and who detests her love interest, played by Johnny Mack Brown. The two of them also have some powerful scenes as emotions overheat. I also loved the snippets of dancing scenes we get to see, they are so energetic and really convey what we think of about the 1920's. At the beginning of the film, I was put off by its slow start and the spotty quality of the film after all these years, particularly when it was hard to understand the dialogue. If you feel the same, I would recommend sticking with it. It's flawed and not going to be your favorite film of all time or anything, but it's worth spending the 75 minutes to watch Pickford and the rest of this cast.
User Review - 6/10 by Cindy IInteresting early talkie starring silent screen star "Little Mary" Pickford. She plays a Southern Belle type who loves a man her father hates and has forbidden her to associate with. When the father takes care of business his way, Mary is faced wth dilemma of lying about her beau to save her father or stick by her love and watch Dad go to prison. The acting was still very much in the silent style, with lots of extreme facial expressions and mannerisms. But the story was OK, and I had never seen Mary Pickford in a film before. She overacts somewhat, but if you squint your eyes just right, she was still pretty convincing. An interesting little piece of melodrama.
User Review - 6/10 by Daniel PSuh, ah say suh, as a Southehn gentleman, ah object to this stereotypical pohtrayal of social mohes of the deep South, and Mary Pickfohd's pehfohmance as an unrepentant fliht. Besides, Pickfohd is a Yankee hussy (so Nohthehn she's Canadian) posing as a truly honorable Southehn belle! Coquette, ah challenge you to a duel! Pistols at dawn!
User Review - 6/10 by John BI finally see the great Canadian Pickford on the big screen. Not bad but not particularly memorable either.
User Review - 6/10 by David LCoquette brought Mary Pickford her only Oscar and although she isn't great, she is pretty good for the material she got and quite stupendous having in mind that this is her first talkie. As for the movie itself, it is engaging and short with good dialogue, but so incredibly sappy, melodramatic and needlessly sadistic in the treatment of its protagonist. It truly did end on a very sour note.
User Review - 6/10 by Luke WCoquette brought Mary Pickford her only Oscar and although she isn't great, she is pretty good for the material she got and quite stupendous having in mind that this is her first talkie. As for the movie itself, it is engaging and short with good dialogue, but so incredibly sappy, melodramatic and needlessly sadistic in the treatment of its protagonist. It truly did end on a very sour note.
User Review - 6/10 by Bob VEarly talkie & first sound film for "Little" Mary Pickford, already established as the Queen of the silent film and Hollywood royalty with her husband Douglas Fairbanks (Senior). Pickford was best known for her little girl roles and her elaborate whorl hair-style. Transitioning to more adult roles had proved more difficult, but sound film, which was the ruin for many of the silent screen's great stars, actually helped her in this, basically starting afresh to the audience. Shearing off all her curls probably also helped. The first of the movie stars to embrace the new medium, she had a sound stage build on in her own Pickfair, and she actually had the best equipment around. Many early sound films have barely any movement, since the slightest superfluous sound (the soft clinking of an actress' bracelet for instance) would be magnified on film and actually drown out the dialog. The camera was often placed behind clear glass plates to remedy this, but this still made it impossible to have scenes with a lot of motion. Because of Pickford's investments in technological advancements, "Coquette" has a lot of natural movement and different camera perspectives, a feat the major studios would not really accomplish until later in the Thirties. While the story is old as dirt (even in 1929, when the dirt was still a lot younger), and the acting suffers a little from the too florid mannerisms of silent film melodrama - after all the area of Pickford's expertise - there are several surprisingly powerful scenes in which she gives a heart-wrenching performance (though admittedly, other than these scenes, she seems to do little more than pout and blink a lot) . Pickford won the Oscar for her performance, only the second time it was given out. Of course, she was one (of only 3 women being the only actress, and of 36 total) of the founders of the Academy and the Oscar, leading to a lot of talk about using her influence to win, although there's no basis for this, as this film and her part in it were at the time highly esteemed by audience and critics alike. Pickford is also supposed to have defended herself once by saying that if she was going to cheat, she would have done it to win the very first Oscar ever, not the second.

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