Lummox

Lummox (1930)

Lummox is a 1930 American Pre-Code sound film directed by Herbert Brenon, released through United Artists, and based on a 1923 novel by Fannie Hurst. The story of Bertha, a young immigrant woman who cleans the homes of the rich and is largely ignored by them, except for a young poet who considers her a muse.

Data lansării
1930-01-13
TMDB
8.0 / 10 (1)
Durată
1 h 28 min
Genuri
Dramă
Regizor
Herbert Brenon

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Lummox is a 1930 American pre-Code sound drama film directed by Herbert Brenon and starring Winifred Westover, based on Fannie Hurst’s 1923 novel of the same name. It was released through United Artists in Germany on 13 January, and in America on 18 January, 1930.

Production

Lummox marked Westover’s return to acting after a several year hiatus; the terms of an agreement signed during proceedings of her divorce from William S. Hart in 1922 explicitly prevented her from working in motion pictures in any capacity or associating herself with Hart’s name. However, Westover petitioned the court for the right to act under her maiden name, and she was allowed to return to work.

In order to portray the heavyset servant, Westover ate fatty food, avoided exercise, and gained forty pounds. To help her appear to be a person who worked long hours of wearying labor the director gave her shoes soled with fifteen pounds of lead, and had her wear a dress with five pounds of lead weights in the collar, five pounds of lead in each of the sleeve cuffs, and ten pounds of weights in the hem of her skirt.

Sound engineer Ed Bernds did not have fond memories of Brenon: "So many of the silent film directors were phonies. I didn't think highly of Herbert Brenon, for instance. He was the old, imperious type of director. Lordly, demanding. There was a scene in Lummox, where Winifred Westover was supposed to be betrayed by Ben Lyon, who has gotten her pregnant. He throws some money down and she takes the money and tears it up with her teeth.

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