My Best Girl
Directed by Sam Taylor
Written by Allen McNeil, Tim Whalen, and Hope Loving from the story by Kathleen Norris
1927/US
Mary Pickford Productions/United Artists
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Maggie Johnson: I love you, Joe… but I can never, never marry you.
Every romcom trope is utilized in Mary Pickford’s last silent film.
Maggie Johnson is a lowly stock room clerk in a big department store. She meets and falls in love with Joe Grant (Charles ‘Buddy’ Rogers) who is a new hire. Unbeknownst to her, Joe is actually the owner’s son and has been placed there to see how he can do incognito. Also unbeknownst to her is that his parents are eager to anxious to announce his engagement to a woman from their social set. Misunderstandings ensue.
I’m not a huge Mary Pickford fan but this is a cute film. Pickford would go on to marry Rogers after her divorce from Douglas Fairbanks in 1936.
