Peacock Alley (1930) DVD-R

Starring Mae Murray, George Barraud, Jason Robards Sr., Richard Tucker,
William L. Thorne
Directed by Marcel De Sano

Print: black/white
Runtime: 63 min.
Genre: drama
Print Quality: B

Claire Tree is a singer/dancer who goes after what she wants in a
straight-forward, no-nonsense manner, so when she finds herself in the
New York City hotel-suite, in fashionable Peacock Alley, of Stoddard
Channing, she wastes no time. Claire wants to get married. But, Stoddard,
whom she cares for very much, has several proposals directed at her,
none of which sound remotely like a marriage proposal; Claire tells him, in
her straight-forward, no-nonsense manner that she wants to get married
because, in her words: "I'm running away from the doubts and uncertainty
and problems of a woman who isn't married." Stoddard thinks that nuptial
bonds is a stupid old-fashioned tradition and fatal to romance. She says
any man who says that is lying, and when she departs his suite at the
crack of dawn, she seems convinced Stoddard indeed believes what he
said he believed. But Claire has another option awaiting her...a Texan
from home, and she promptly accepts his marriage proposal. But the
house detective comes along after the ceremony and tells Tex his
version of what he thinks goes on when a woman stays in a man's suite
until the crack of dawn, and that doesn't jibe with his definition of a moral
woman, and he ups and leaves her. Stoddard comes along and he thinks
Tex has made a mockery of the marriage vows he took a short while ago,
and he tells Claire that he will marry her, as soon as she can get an
annulment from that day's ceremony, and they will make a go of it because
they are 'different.' Somewhere in the 24-hour setting of this film, Claire
plays a piano and sings a song called "In My Dreams, You Still Belong To
Me," and then does a tango with a partner; and then does a solo-dance
performance, interpreting a bullfighter...in costume...in 2-strip
Technicolor.