Adolphe Menjou (Hazlitt), Florence Vidor (Mrs Hazlitt), Betty Bronson (Lita Hazlitt), Lawrence Gray (Dr Dacer), Andre de Beranger (Maurice Mansfield), Emily Fitzroy (Margaret), Mary Beth Milford (Aurella Wilton), William Courtright (Freebody).
Director: MAL ST CLAIR. Screenplay: Frances Agnew. Based on The Saturday Evening Post short story by Alice Duer Miller. Photography: Bert Glennon. Presented by Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky.
Copyright 5 June 1925 by Famous Players-Lasky. Released through Paramount Pictures. New York opening at the Rivoli: 8 June 1925. 6,586 feet. 73 minutes (at sound speed).
SYNOPSIS: Believing they are incompatible, Mr and Mrs Hazlitt begin divorce proceedings. This separation weighs heavily on their daughter, Lita, who is sent back to boarding school when she refuses to live with either of her parents. Instead, she schemes to re-unite them. NOTES: After making one film for an independent producer, St Clair was offered a long-term contract with Famous Players-Lasky. The one proviso: His first picture had to be a smash success! Are Parents People? which St Clair directed at the age of twenty-eight not only secured him the contract but made him famous. The picture was universally praised. And the feature praised most of all was St Clair's success in putting across the comedy with such artistry, style and gentle effectiveness.
COMMENT: A highly sophisticated comedy of manners which eschewed melodrama and slapstick in favor of a captivating realism and gentle satire, "Are Parents People?" provided its players with some of their best-loved roles. Adolphe Menjou plays the father with flair, Florence Vidor is ideal as the self-centered mother, but young Betty Bronson steals the show with her delightful impression of the resourceful maiden fair.
Director: MAL ST CLAIR. Screenplay: Frances Agnew. Based on The Saturday Evening Post short story by Alice Duer Miller. Photography: Bert Glennon. Presented by Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky.
Copyright 5 June 1925 by Famous Players-Lasky. Released through Paramount Pictures. New York opening at the Rivoli: 8 June 1925. 6,586 feet. 73 minutes (at sound speed).
SYNOPSIS: Believing they are incompatible, Mr and Mrs Hazlitt begin divorce proceedings. This separation weighs heavily on their daughter, Lita, who is sent back to boarding school when she refuses to live with either of her parents. Instead, she schemes to re-unite them. NOTES: After making one film for an independent producer, St Clair was offered a long-term contract with Famous Players-Lasky. The one proviso: His first picture had to be a smash success! Are Parents People? which St Clair directed at the age of twenty-eight not only secured him the contract but made him famous. The picture was universally praised. And the feature praised most of all was St Clair's success in putting across the comedy with such artistry, style and gentle effectiveness.
COMMENT: A highly sophisticated comedy of manners which eschewed melodrama and slapstick in favor of a captivating realism and gentle satire, "Are Parents People?" provided its players with some of their best-loved roles. Adolphe Menjou plays the father with flair, Florence Vidor is ideal as the self-centered mother, but young Betty Bronson steals the show with her delightful impression of the resourceful maiden fair.