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Silent Films released in 1926
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Cecil B. De Mille's 1926 production of The Clinging Vine is a recent rediscovery and perhaps the ultimate Twenties gender-bender. Leatrice Joy plays "The President's Assistant - known as A. B. - who hired wired and fired men - but had never kissed one." Charmingly the movie questions whether female professionalism is detrimental to femininity romantic love and by implication the perpetuation of the human race. The eventual narrative solution is for A.B. to undergo an amazing but comedic transformation into a coy clinging vine draped in flowing dresses. She wins the heart of Jimmy Bancroft her employer's grandson an imp
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