Blonde or Brunette (1927)
62 mins | Romantic comedy | January 1927
Director:
Richard RossonWriter:
John McDermottCinematographer:
Victor MilnerProduction Company:
Famous Players-Lasky Corp.The scenario was based on the 1924 short story, "Un Ange passe (An Angel Passes)" by Jacques Bousquet and Henri Falk. Some sources claim that the authors also wrote a stage version.
An item in the 1 August 1926 Film Daily reported that Forrest Halsey was writing the screen adaptation as a starring vehicle for Adolphe Menjou, to be produced at the Famous Players-Lasky studio in Queens, NY. Production was moved to Paramount Studios in Hollywood, CA, and was scheduled to begin the following month, as stated in the 8 September 1926 Variety and the 10 September 1926 Film Mercury. John Mc Dermott was credited with writing the screenplay based on Halsey’s adaptation. The working title was An Angel Passes.
News items in the 28 October 1926 Film Daily and 30 October 1926 Exhibitors Herald noted that actress Greta Nissen had arrived at the studio from New York City while principal photography was already underway. Five days later, the 3 November 1926 Variety announced the picture’s official title as Blonde or Brunette. An article in January 1927 Motion Picture (published in November 1926) claimed that the Paramount casting office had mistakenly attributed the film’s lead role to Thomas Meighan.
According to the 19 November 1926 Film Daily, Menjou was absent from the set for a few days due to a “slight illness.” A photograph caption in the March 1927 Motion Picture revealed that location shooting had taken place at a beach in ...
The scenario was based on the 1924 short story, "Un Ange passe (An Angel Passes)" by Jacques Bousquet and Henri Falk. Some sources claim that the authors also wrote a stage version.
An item in the 1 August 1926 Film Daily reported that Forrest Halsey was writing the screen adaptation as a starring vehicle for Adolphe Menjou, to be produced at the Famous Players-Lasky studio in Queens, NY. Production was moved to Paramount Studios in Hollywood, CA, and was scheduled to begin the following month, as stated in the 8 September 1926 Variety and the 10 September 1926 Film Mercury. John Mc Dermott was credited with writing the screenplay based on Halsey’s adaptation. The working title was An Angel Passes.
News items in the 28 October 1926 Film Daily and 30 October 1926 Exhibitors Herald noted that actress Greta Nissen had arrived at the studio from New York City while principal photography was already underway. Five days later, the 3 November 1926 Variety announced the picture’s official title as Blonde or Brunette. An article in January 1927 Motion Picture (published in November 1926) claimed that the Paramount casting office had mistakenly attributed the film’s lead role to Thomas Meighan.
According to the 19 November 1926 Film Daily, Menjou was absent from the set for a few days due to a “slight illness.” A photograph caption in the March 1927 Motion Picture revealed that location shooting had taken place at a beach in Santa Barbara, CA. The close of production was reported in the 3 December 1926 Film Daily.
Blonde or Brunette was released in late January 1927, preceded by openings on 31 December 1926 at the Metropolitan Theatre in Los Angeles, CA, and on 8 January 1927 at the Paramount Theatre in New York City.
According to the Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database, this film is extant.
Disgusted with the jazz-mad crowd that infests his Paris residence, Frenchman Henri Martel leaves the city for a Breton village. There he meets a sweet old lady and marries her demure granddaughter, Fanny. While Henri is away on business, he leaves his new bride in the care of a young woman named Blanche, and returns to find that Fanny is now drinking, smoking, and Charlestoning along with the fast crowd. A divorce follows, although Fanny warns that it will break her grandmother's heart. Henri marries Blanche, but he regrets this action when she makes life dull for him. Complications ensue when Fanny and Henri are forced into deceiving Grandma. Henri cannot have Fanny and Blanche will not have him. Thus, he is driven to sleeping outside Fanny's door, and not to be outdone, she curls up on the other side of the closed door. ...
Disgusted with the jazz-mad crowd that infests his Paris residence, Frenchman Henri Martel leaves the city for a Breton village. There he meets a sweet old lady and marries her demure granddaughter, Fanny. While Henri is away on business, he leaves his new bride in the care of a young woman named Blanche, and returns to find that Fanny is now drinking, smoking, and Charlestoning along with the fast crowd. A divorce follows, although Fanny warns that it will break her grandmother's heart. Henri marries Blanche, but he regrets this action when she makes life dull for him. Complications ensue when Fanny and Henri are forced into deceiving Grandma. Henri cannot have Fanny and Blanche will not have him. Thus, he is driven to sleeping outside Fanny's door, and not to be outdone, she curls up on the other side of the closed door.
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