BEVERLY OF GRAUSTARK (1926) ¢ ¢ ¢
D: Sidney Franklin
Marion Davies, Antonio Moreno, Roy D'Arcy,
Creighton Hale, Albert Gran, Paulette Duval
William Randolph Hearst's girlfriend plays a fun-loving college kid who returns home just as her cousin's about to become the prince of one of those European countries that only exist in fairy tales and movies like this one. When he gets hurt in a skiing accident, falling off a cliff, she assumes his identity to keep him from losing the crown. So for most of the movie, y0u've got Marion posing as a boy in a gender-bent comedy that's tailor-made for what she could do on the screen. You can see why old man Hearst was crazy about her. The last few minutes were shot in two-strip Technicolor.
