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1929 film by Irving Cummings

Not Quite Decent
Lobby card
Directed by	Irving Cummings
Written by	Marion Orth (writer) Edwin J. Burke (dialogue) Malcolm Stuart Boylan (intertitles)
Story by	Wallace Smith
Produced by	James Kevin McGuinness
Starring	Louise Dresser June Collyer
Cinematography	Charles G. Clarke
Edited by	Paul Weatherwax
Music by	S. L. Rothafel
Distributed by	Fox Film Corporation
Release date	July 1929 (1929-07)
Running time	58 minutes
Country	United States
Languages	Sound (Part-Talkie) English Intertitles

Not Quite Decent is a 1929 American sound part-talkie Pre-Code film, produced and distributed by Fox Film Corporation, directed by Irving Cummings, and starring June Collyer and Louise Dresser. In addition to sequences with audible dialogue or talking sequences, the film features a synchronized musical score and sound effects along with English intertitles. The soundtrack was recorded using the Movietone sound-on-film system.

Plot

On her way to New York for her first stage appearance, Linda Cunningham meets Mame Jarrow, a nightclub singer; Linda later drops by to hear Mame sing, accompanied by their angel, Paul Nicholson, a wealthy roué. Mame gradually comes to realize that Linda is her own daughter, from whom she was separated years before by pious relatives. Using all her wiles, Mame attempts to keep Linda from falling prey to Nicholson, and when all else fails, she sends for Jerry Connor, Linda's small town sweetheart. Linda returns home with Jerry, and Mame sings her heart out in smoky rooms, never disclosing to Linda that she is her mother.

Cast

June Collyer as Linda Cunningham
Louise Dresser as Mame Jarrow
Allan Lane as Jerry Connor
Marjorie Beebe as Margie
Oscar Apfel as Canfield
Ben Hewlett as a Crook
Jack Kenny as Another Crook
Paul Nicholson as Al Bergon

Music

The film features a theme song entitled "Empty Arms" with words and music by Con Conrad, Archie Gottler and Sidney D. Mitchell.

Preservation status

Not Quite Decent is now considered to be a lost film.

References

External links

Not Quite Decent at IMDb
Lobby poster
Poster
Still at silentfilmstillarchive.com

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Films directed by Irving Cummings

Flesh and Blood (1922)
Broad Daylight (1922)
The Jilt (1922)
The Man from Hell's River (1922)
Paid Back (1922)
Environment (1922)
The Drug Traffic (1923)
East Side - West Side (1923)
Broken Hearts of Broadway (1923)
Stolen Secrets (1924)
In Every Woman's Life (1924)
Riders Up (1924)
Fools Highway (1924)
The Dancing Cheat (1924)
The Rose of Paris (1924)
As Man Desires (1925)
One Year to Live (1925)
Just a Woman (1925)
The Desert Flower (1925)
Infatuation (1925)
The Johnstown Flood (1926)
Rustling for Cupid (1926)
The Midnight Kiss (1926)
The Country Beyond (1926)
Bertha, the Sewing Machine Girl (1926)
The Brute (1927)
The Port of Missing Girls (1928)
Romance of the Underworld (1928)
Dressed to Kill (1928)
In Old Arizona (1928)
Behind That Curtain (1929)
Not Quite Decent (1929)
Cameo Kirby (1930)
On the Level (1930)
A Devil with Women (1930)
A Holy Terror (1931)
The Cisco Kid (1931)
Attorney for the Defense (1932)
The Night Club Lady (1932)
Man Against Woman (1932)
Man Hunt (1933)
The Woman I Stole (1933)
The Mad Game (1933)
I Believed in You (1934)
Grand Canary (1934)
The White Parade (1934)
Curly Top (1935)
It's a Small World (1935)
Poor Little Rich Girl (1936)
Girls' Dormitory (1936)
White Hunter (1936)
Vogues of 1938 (1937)
Merry-Go-Round of 1938 (1937)
Little Miss Broadway (1938)
Just Around the Corner (1938)
Everything Happens at Night (1939)
Hollywood Cavalcade (1939)
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939)
Lillian Russell (1940)
Down Argentine Way (1940)
That Night in Rio (1941)
Belle Starr (1941)
Louisiana Purchase (1941)
My Gal Sal (1942)
Springtime in the Rockies (1942)
Sweet Rosie O'Grady (1943)
What a Woman! (1943)
The Impatient Years (1944)
The Dolly Sisters (1945)
Double Dynamite (1951)

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