THE CLINGING VINE
starring Leatrice Joy and Tom Moore
MOTION PICTURE MAGAZINE
October, 1926
Peggy Wood talked her way thru the stage version of "The Clinging Vine" with creditable success. But we can't imagine what makes P.D.C. or Leatrice Joy go in for this brand of stuff. The story, if it can be so termed, has to do with Miss Joy in the role of "A.B." an efficient and entirely sexless young woman with flat-heeled shoes who runs the office she works in and the Boss, otherwise known as Grandpa. The well-known Robert Edeson is unhappily cast as Grandpa, and elderly gentleman with a passion for golf and a consuming belief in the abilities of "A.B." "A.B." goes up to Grandpa's country place, bristling with brief cases. There she gets into the clutches of Grandma, a coy young-old type. Grandma "takes 'A.B.' in hand" and transforms her, miraculously, into feminine exhibit No. 1. She likewise tells her that in order to make the grade with men she must perpetually flutter her eyelashes, cling and tell them how wonderful they are. She DOES. She then meets Tom Moore, Grandpa's grandson. They fall in love . . . and . . . oh, but why go on?
THE CLINGING VINE
starring Leatrice Joy and Tom Moore
PICTURE PLAY MAGAZINE
October, 1926
Leatrice Joy fares not well at all in "The Clinging Vine." One of our most interesting and gracious actresses again is strangled by a story as unworthy of her talents as -- well, "Eve's Leaves." How she could even simulate cheerfulness while playing the business girl who blossoms into a cooing dove is beyond me. The transition is supoosed to be funny -- and was in the stage play -- but it is all too sad on the screen. And sadder still for Leatrice's future.
The story of the mannish girl who gives her life to swinging big business deals, and then, on the advice of a skittish aunt, decides all at once to become a dumb Dora in order to attract men, was trifling though fairly plausible entertainment on the stage, by reason of dialogue and music. But on the screen it is reduced to sheer silliness, and dull silliness at that.
Not only is Leatrice swamped by the ineptitutde of "The Clinging Vine," but the talents of Tom Moore are equally wasted.
THE CLINGING VINE
starring Leatrice Joy and Tom Moore
PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE
September, 1926
Here, once more, is the goofy plot about the efficient young business woman who gets sex appeal the moment she tacks a couple of ruffles on her tailor-made. The satire of it completely escaped Paul Sloane, the director. Leatrice Joy gives a flat, mechanical performance as the girl. Tom Moore does what he can with the sappy hero. Triete and tedious.
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