Twinkletoes

Twinkletoes (1926)

The Golden-Headed Little Lover of Limehouse, Who Will Dance Her Way Into Your Heart!

"Twinkletoes" Minasi wants to be a great dancer like her deceased mother. Twink meets Chuck Lightfoot, a noted prizefighter, who falls in love with her at first sight. She tries to avoid falling in love with Chuck, whose wife, Cissie, is a drunken harridan and more than a little bit spiteful. Meanwhile, Twink has secured a job in a singing-dancing act in a Limehouse theater, under the auspices of Roseleaf, who has more than just a protective interest in the girl. The jealous Cissie discovers that Twink's sign-painting father also has a night job as a burglar, and she turns him into the police. While a big success dancing on the stage, the arrest of her father has left her somewhat down in the dumps, and she decides to toss herself into the Thames. Possibly, the now-free Chuck, since Cissie has been killed in an accident, might come along and rescue her.

Date of release
1926-11-28
TMDB
6.8 / 10 (4)
Runtime
1h 18m
Genres
Romance, Crime, Drama
Director
Charles Brabin

Casting

Interesting facts

Twinkletoes is a 1926 American silent romantic drama film directed by Charles Brabin and starring Colleen Moore. The film, as with most of Moore's vehicles at this time, was produced by her husband John McCormick with the couple distributing through Moore's resident studio First National. This film is one of Moore's surviving films from the late silent era and is available on DVD.

Production

Scenario writer Winifred Dunn did research in San Francisco's Chinatown for the atmosphere of the film.

The movie was based on the 1918 novel Twinkletoes: A Tale of the Limehouse, by Thomas Burke. Like the book, the film's original story had a dramatic ending, with Twinks drowning in the river. Colleen's husband did not believe that the original ending would play as well as a happy ending, perhaps worried that the production might not be well received by audiences, as had been the case with the dramatic So Big.

This was Colleen's first "serious" film since her portrayal of Salena Peake in So Big. Coleen danced several of the numbers in the film herself. The film came between two of her comedies, as it was the studio's strategy to stagger her comedies and dramatic roles, so that the public would not become tired of any single genre.

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