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Directed by King Vidor
In this silent film, a small-town girl tries to make it in Hollywood.
1928 1h 23m Silent TV-G
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![Marion Davies, Peggy Pepper [also known as Patricia Pepoire]](https://prod-images.tcm.com/Master-Profile-Images/MarionDavies.jpg?w=200)
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![Dell Henderson, Colonel [Marmaduke Oldfish] Pepper](https://prod-images.tcm.com/v5cache/TCM/Images/watchtcm/WatchTCM_Placeholder_Cast.png?w=200)
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![Paul Ralli, André [Telefair]](https://prod-images.tcm.com/v5cache/TCM/Images/watchtcm/WatchTCM_Placeholder_Cast.png?w=200)
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After driving his ostentatiously dressed daughter Peggy in a battered model T from Georgia to Hollywood, Colonel Marmaduke Oldfish Pepper announces at a film studio gate that he will let the president of the company put her in the movies. At the casting office, where father and daughter tramp past a waiting crowd to speak to the clerk, Peggy, who is asked for her photographs, offers her baby and childhood portraits and then demonstrates her acting skills by making facial expressions she uses to portray various moods. Amused, the clerk signs her up, but, while waiting for her to be cast, the Peppers' money dwindles down to forty cents. At the studio's commissary, after the colonel charms a server into giving him extra crackers, a slapstick comedy artist, Billy Boone, sits down with them at the table. Despite Peggy's pretenses that she is looking over several offers, Billy realizes their desperate situation and offers to get her a job at Comet Studios where he works. On the way to her first assignment, Peggy wanders through several films in progress and disrupts the scenes before finding Billy and his colleagues. Believing that she has been cast in a dramatic role, she is wearing her prettiest party dress and does not realize she is filming a slapstick comedy, until she is thoroughly spritzed with seltzer water as the camera rolls. Although the cast and crew are impressed by her natural, surprised reaction, the horrified Peggy flees the set. Billy consoles her and convince...






At the beginning of the film, "Peggy Pepper" and the colonel are seen driving along Hollywood Boulevard in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles, CA. Shots of the entrances of the Paramount, Fox, First National and M-G-M studios as they were in 1928 are shown in the film. According to modern sources, the Comet Studios slapstick sequences were shot at the old Mack Sennett studios in the Edendale area of Los Angeles. The "High Arts Studio" sequences were shot at M-G-M. According to t...