The Waning Sex (1926)
05 Sep 1926 • Comedy, Romance • 1h 10m
District Attorney Conrad Nagel wants to marry Norma Shearer, but she has her own law practice to keep her busy. She proposes three contests and Nagel agrees. The first comes up immediately: the party they are both attending has a swimming race, which Nagel wins. The second comes up a few weeks later, when Miss Shearer is asked to defend a criminal whom Nagel is prosecuting. She wins that one. Finally, after Nagel is nominated for re-election, the other party asks Miss Shearer to win.About ten minutes of this movie is missing from the print I saw, and I thought the accompaniment I heard did not match the essentially light-hearted feminist story, which has Miss SHearer wearing pants in one scene and a very attractive evening gown n another. It's clearly a vehicle to show off Miss Shearer, with a few good poses thrown in for Nagel under the typically competent direction of Robert Z. Leonard, but it's clear that something is missing from the shortened print; it ends fairly abruptly. Still, there are some nice small parts for George K. Arthur and Tiny Ward, and typically stylish art design by Cedric Gibbons.
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$251,663