The Clinging Vine

The Clinging Vine (1926)

When a hardened businesswoman who goes by the initials A.B. overhears someone calling her an “Amazon” because of her butch ways, she agrees to a more “feminine” makeover. In the end she learns that no matter how she looks she’s still the smartest person in any room. 

Date of release
1926-09-06
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (3)
Runtime
1h 11m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Paul Sloane

Casting

Interesting facts

The Clinging Vine is a 1926 American silent comedy film produced by Cecil B. DeMille and Paul Slone and directed by Sloane. It was distributed by DeMille's Producers Distributing Corporation. The film is based on a 1922 Broadway play of the same name by Zelda Sears. The film was a starring vehicle for Leatrice Joy who left Paramount Pictures along with DeMille when he formed his own distributing company PDC.

Production

Leatrice Joy had impulsively cut her hair short in 1926, and Cecil B. DeMille, whom Joy had followed when he set up PDC, was publicly angry as it prevented her from portraying traditional feminine roles. The studio developed projects with roles suitable for her "Leatrice Joy bob", and The Clinging Vine was the third of five films before she regrew her hair. Despite this, a professional dispute would end the Joy / Demille partnership in 1928.

Exteriors for The Clinging Vine were filmed at Mt. Lowe and Ocean Park.

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