Bare Knees
1928 film
- February 1, 1928 (1928-02-01)
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Bare Knees is a 1928 American silent comedy drama film directed by Erle C. Kenton and starring Virginia Lee Corbin.[1][2]
Plot
Billie Durey, the family's black sheep, returns to her small hometown and causes a sensation with her short skirts, cigarettes, and other "flapper" accoutrements.
Cast
- Virginia Lee Corbin as Billie Durey
- Donald Keith as Larry Cook
- Jane Winton as Jane Longworth
- Johnnie Walker a Paul Gladden
- Forrest Stanley as John Longworth
- Maude Fulton as Bessie
- Ernie Adams as Clerk (uncredited)
- William H. O'Brien as Waiter (uncredited)
- Ellinor Vanderveer as Society Woman (uncredited)
Preservation
A print of Bare Knees is in the collection of the Library of Congress.[3] The film is available on DVD (along with the 1928 Hairbreadth Harry comedy Danger Ahead) from Grapevine Video, transferred from this 35mm nitrate print.[4][5]
References
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bare Knees.
- Bare Knees at IMDb
- Synopsis at AllMovie
- Bare Knees, Moviessilently.com
- Restored lobby poster
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Films directed by Erle C. Kenton
- Salome vs. Shenandoah (1919)
- Down on the Farm (1920)
- Love, Honor and Behave (1920)
- A Small Town Idol (1921)
- A Fool and His Money (1925)
- Red Hot Tires (1925)
- The Love Toy (1926)
- Other Women's Husbands (1926)
- The Sap (1926)
- The Palm Beach Girl (1926)
- The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary (1927)
- The Girl in the Pullman (1927)
- Bare Knees (1928)
- Name the Woman (1928)
- Nothing to Wear (1928)
- Companionate Marriage (1928)
- Golf Widows (1928)
- The Street of Illusion (1928)
- The Sideshow (1928)
- The Sporting Age (1928)
- Trial Marriage (1929)
- Father and Son (1929)
- Song of Love (1929)
- Mexicali Rose (1929)
- A Royal Romance (1930)
- X Marks the Spot (1931)
- Left Over Ladies (1931)
- The Last Parade (1931)
- Guilty as Hell (1932)
- Island of Lost Souls (1932)
- From Hell to Heaven (1933)
- Disgraced! (1933)
- Big Executive (1933)
- Search for Beauty (1934)
- You're Telling Me! (1934)
- Party Wire (1935)
- The Best Man Wins (1935)
- The Public Menace (1935)
- Devil's Squadron (1936)
- Counterfeit (1936)
- She Asked for It (1937)
- The Devil's Playground (1937)
- Little Tough Guys in Society (1938)
- The Lady Objects (1938)
- Everything's on Ice (1939)
- Escape to Paradise (1939)
- Remedy for Riches (1940)
- Petticoat Politics (1941)
- Melody for Three (1941)
- Naval Academy (1941)
- They Meet Again (1941)
- Flying Cadets (1941)
- North to the Klondike (1942)
- The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942)
- Frisco Lil (1942)
- Pardon My Sarong (1942)
- Who Done It? (1942)
- It Ain't Hay (1943)
- House of Frankenstein (1944)
- She Gets Her Man (1945)
- House of Dracula (1945)
- The Cat Creeps (1946)
- Little Miss Big (1946)
- Bob and Sally (1948)
- One Too Many (1951)
- Secrets of Beauty (1951)
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