Word: shopgirls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Helen Morgan, star of the stage Show Boat, cast in the prolog of the picture to sing some of her songs, was a 16-year-old shopgirl when a group of Chicago admirers bought her a ticket to Montreal where she won $1,000 in a beauty contest. Later, in the cast of George White's Scandals, she began to sing songs sitting, droop-lipped, on a piano; then in Americana, then in her own night club, she climbed from the piano-top to success. When Miami persuaded Universal to hold the film premiere of Show Boat...
...nearly so suave as J. S. Fletcher nor so subtle as E. Phillips Oppenheim, Edgar Wallace stands alone for versatility and production volume. As purveyor of mass literature for King, commoner and shopgirl, he is the master...
...directed by Anthony Asquith, 26, member of an English family which has already done much to entertain the U. S.* Few Asquiths, however, have used their wits as seriously as young Anthony in his account of a London subway guard who falls in love with what Britishers call a shopgirl. A plot, somewhat too complicated for strong drama, includes a rival lover who burns another girl to death against a high-tension switch, and a young wife who (married at last to her subway guard) rides around on the Underground just to be near him. In spite of amateurish handling...
Ladies Must Dress. After repulsing the improper advances of her employer's son, a shopgirl (Virginia Valli) marries the honest poor boy whom she has captivated with her girl friend's sartorial assistance. This merry plot is a frayed and apparently accidental ribbon tied to the wrist of a fashion show...
Very Confidential is designed to show that if Madge Bellamy were a shopgirl she could go to a fashion resort and make another girl's fiance fall in love with her. The picture would have been more creditable had Actress Bellamy been instructed to control her belligerent coyness...