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Why Be Good? is a 1929 American sound comedy film produced by First National Pictures starring Colleen Moore and Neil Hamilton. While the film has no audible dialogue, it is accompanied by a Vitaphone soundtrack that features a musical score with sound effects and some synchronized singing.
Why Be Good?: Directed by William A. Seiter. With Colleen Moore, Neil Hamilton, Bodil Rosing, John St. Polis. A flapper with a dubious reputation enjoys a vivacious night of dancing and finds herself romantically linked to her boss.
Filmperlen's Time Travel back to the 1920s Featuring the silent comedy WHY BE GOOD? (1929) Starring Colleen Moore, Neil Hamilton, Bodil Rosing ...more.
Why be good, indeed. From the transitional year of 1929, the beginnings of sound and the slow decay of silent films, comes this fun, slightly raunchy romantic comedy. Pert Kelly (Colleen Moore) is just another cool gal having a night on the town when she meets a dashing young man. Both are smitten, so they promise to meet each other the next night.
Why Be Good? opens with a boisterous party at the penthouse apartment of the wealthy Peabodys. Winthrop Peabody, Jr. is celebrating his last night of freedom before going to work at the family department store the next morning.
Nov 11, 2014 · The son of a millionaire department store owner is throwing a bash on his last day of “freedom” in 1929’s Why Be Good?, the long-lost silent film, recently restored and released on DVD by Warner Archive. What this rich kid means by “freedom” is really “being almost 30 and only just now being expected to work for a living,” which ...
The Colleen Moore film Why Be Good (1929) was once lost but now is found. Early film historian Jonas Nordin provides some context to this wonderful discovery.
