Directed by:
Allan DwanCinematography:
Harold RossonCast:
Gloria Swanson, H.B. Warner, Ferdinand Gottschalk, Helen Mack, Ivan Linow, Lucille La Verne, Riley HatchPlots(1)
Gloria Swanson is all flounce and swagger as Zaza, a street gamine turned music hall star, strutting her stuff, tossing off quips and taunts with her irrepressible backside, which is sometimes adorned with a pert bow for emphasis. Over the course of the film, directed by Allan Dwan (Robin Hood), she engages in two knock-down drag-out cat fights, frisks through playful love scenes, writhes in a hospital bed, nurses a broken heart, and evolves into a soberly dignified woman. Her physicality dominates the film, which does not suffer from being essentially a well-crafted frame for her performance. Swanson's ebullience in Zaza was unfeigned; she called it "the fastest, easiest, most enjoyable picture I ever made." (Kino Lorber)
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Gloria Swanson
USA
Best movies:
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Why Change Your Wife? (1920)
Queen Kelly (1929)
H.B. Warner
UK
Best movies:
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Ferdinand Gottschalk
UK
Best movies:
The Sign of the Cross (1932)
Les Misérables (1935)
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
Helen Mack
USA
Best movies:
His Girl Friday (1940)
She (1935)
The Son of Kong (1933)
Ivan Linow
Russian Empire
Best movies:
City Girl (1930)
The Miracle Woman (1931)
The Black Room (1935)
Lucille La Verne
USA
Best movies:
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
America (1924)
A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
Riley Hatch
USA