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Zaza [videorecording (DVD)].

distributed by Kino Lorber, under license from Paramount Pictures, 2017.

Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.) -- France -- Paris -- Drama.

[videorecording (DVD)].

1 videodisc (84 min.) : Dolby digital sd., b&w; 12 cm. + 1 booklet.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1923.

"Based on the 1899 French play of the same name [written by Pierre Berton and Charles Simon] produced on Broadway by David Belasco and starring Mrs. Leslie Carter."--Wikipedia.com.

Silent film with English intertitles and musical accompaniment.

An Allan Dwan production ; Famous Players-Lasky Corporation ; distributed by Paramount Pictures ; piano score composed and performed by Jeff Rapsis adapted from the original cue sheet ; director, Allan Dwan

Gloria Swanson with H. B. Warner, Mary Thurman, Lucille La Verne and Ferdinand Gottschalk.

"Gloria Swanson is all flounce and swagger as Zaza, a street gamine turned music hall star, strutting her stuff, tossing off quips and taunts with her irrepressible backside, which is sometimes adorned with a pert bow for emphasis. Over the course of the film, directed by Allan Dwan (Robin Hood), she engages in two knock-down drag-out cat fights, frisks through playful love scenes, writhes in a hospital bed, nurses a broken heart, and evolves into a soberly dignified woman. Her physicality dominates the film, which does not suffer from being essentially a well-crafted frame for her performance. Swanson s ebullience in Zaza was unfeigned; she called it the fastest, easiest, most enjoyable picture I ever made. ~ Imogen Sara Smith."--Container.

Show business films.

Melodrama and tearjerker films.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Berton, Pierre, 1842-1912. Zaza.

Simon, Charles, 1850-1910. Zara.

Dwan, Allan, 1885-1981.

Swanson, Gloria, 1897-1983.

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