Lady Of The Pavements

As an ordinary programmer and part talkie, this relatively light drama isn't bad. Velez, later to become famous as "the Mexican Spitfire" in the 1930s and 1940s, is paired off with Boyd, an actor discovered by Cecil B. DeMille, who later was to become the western's Hopalong Cassidy. The setting for this Ruritanian romance is Paris, 1868. As a Prussian count, Boyd is engaged to Goudal, a French countess. She enrages the man after engaging in an affair, so he vows to marry a "lady of the pavements." Goudal secretly arranges for Boyd to meet Velez, a cabaret singer whom she disguises as a sophisticate. The two marry, then a reception is held in their honor. There Goud...