Coquette (1929)

COQUETTE  (1929)  ¢ ¢ 1/2
    D: Sam Taylor
    Mary Pickford, John Mack Brown, Matt Moore,
    John St. Polis, George Irving, Louise Beavers
Silent superstar Mary Pickford won an Oscar for this early talkie, playing a Southern belle who falls hard for a handsome young man from the wrong side of town. It's a movie with one foot in the silent era and the other in sound, and Pickford's performance reflects that. With her hair cut fashionably short, Mary's undeniably cute, but the dialogue's stiff and the sound quality's terrible. Pickford made only three more movies after this, and effectively retired in 1933.