Helen D'Algy Movies

Marions-Nous (Let's Get Married) is based on The Wedding Night, a play by Avery Hopwood. Film star Gisele Landry (Alice Cocea) and her current lover Francis Latour (Fernand Gravey) check in at a Balkan hotel and sign what they think is the hotel register. Instead, the couple discovers that they've just become husband and wife. Making things even more complicated is the fact that Francis is impersonating another man, a famous -- and married--composer. Never letting up its pace for a single moment, Marions-Nous is a wonderfully wacky, door-slamming boudoir farce. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Josef von Sternberg had been the original director of Exquisite Sinner, but MGM was dissatisfied with the picture and refused to release it. When the film finally surfaced in 1926 (a full year after its completion), it had been radically altered by staff director Phil Rosen. Adapted by Alice Duer Miller from a novel by Alden Brooks, the film concerns a young man (Conrad Nagel) who forsakes the humdrum business world for the bohemian life of an artist. Renee Adoree co-stars as "The Gypsy Maid" who leads the hero merrily astray. Myrna Loy makes a brief, barely clothed appearance as "The Living Statue," the first of Josef Von Sternberg's many beautiful "mannequins," the most famous of whom would be Marlene Dietrich. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

There's something very calculated about this Rudolph Valentino vehicle. As he did in Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the star plays an Argentine with a talent for the tango. The production and costuming are elaborate, and the story was based on the Rex Beach novel Rope's End. But none of this can help a weak plot line which is stretched mighty thin to last for nine reels. It is arranged for Don Alonzo de Castro to marry Julietta (Helen D'Algy), who comes from a noble Spanish family. Castro's jealous ex-girlfriend, Carlotta (Nita Naldi), schemes with bandit El Tigre (George Siegmann) to destroy their happiness. On the couple's wedding night, El Tigre stages a raid and kidnaps Julietta. Carlos goes after him, but is enraged when he sees a woman with a bridal veil embracing the bandit. He believes it is Julietta, when it's actually Carlotta. Castro plans revenge on El Tigre. Meanwhile, Julietta escapes to a nunnery with the help of Carmelita, a dancing girl (Louise Lagrange). Although Carmelita loves Castro herself, she eventually reveals Julietta's hiding place and the couple are reunited. ~ Janiss Garza, Rovi