Head over Heels
Cast & Crew
Victor Schertzinger
Mabel Normand
Hugh Thompson
Russ Powell
Raymond Hatton
Adolphe Menjou
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
When theatrical agent Sterling, a ladies man known for signing his latest paramours onto his agency's talent roster, returns to New York from a trip to Europe, he tells his more down-to-earth partner, Lawson, that he has hired a beautiful Neopolitan acrobat he saw onstage in Italy. When the acrobat, Tina Bambinetti, arrives in their office, though, Sterling is shocked to find that, offstage, she is plain, unkempt and badly dressed. Crushed by Sterling's dismissive treatment, Tina performs some acrobatics that almost destroy the office, but her spunk impress Lawson. Later, Papa Bambinetti is convinced by scheming press agent Pepper that Tina would have a promising career in motion pictures if she just visited a "beauty hospital." Despite Tina's fears that the imposing beauticians will hurt her, she soon undergoes a complete transformation and emerges, to everyone's surprise, as a beautiful, well-dressed young woman. Lawson falls in love with Tina, who enjoys her new life and cannot decide between him and her career. One night, when Tina sees Lawson with another woman at the roof garden of her hotel, she angrily confronts them, then packs her bags to return to Italy. Lawson stops her before she boards her ship, though, after explaining that the woman was merely another client.
Cast
Mabel Normand
Hugh Thompson
Russ Powell
Raymond Hatton
Adolphe Menjou
Lilyan Tashman
Lionel Belmore
Crew
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
The entry above is based on contemporary sources supplemented by a 2006 viewing of an incomplete print that was preserved by AFI. Production credits were missing from the print viewed, as was the ending and some additional segments of the film. The viewed print contained a fantasy sequence in which Mabel Normand, as "Tina Bambinetti" imagines herself as a movie "vamp," dressed and acting like popular actress Theda Bara.
As noted in ontemporary news items, the film was actually completed in mid-1920, although its release was delayed until April 1922. Head over Heels was the final Normand film released by Goldwyn Pictures.
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States 1922
Released in United States November 2006
Released in United States November 2006 (Shown at AFI/Los Angeles Film Festival (20 Years of AFI Fest) November 1-12, 2006.)
Released in United States 1922
