False Faces (1932)
False Faces (1932)
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This shocking pre-Code melodrama is a tour de force for Lowell Sherman, one of the few 1930s stars to direct his own pictures. Afterwards he would transition completely into directing, with 1933's She Done Him Wrong (the film that made Mae West a star) and Morning Glory (which netted Katherine Hepburn her first Academy Award.) In 1934, Sherman tragically died from a case of double pneumonia while filming Becky Sharp (it would eventually be completed by Rouben Mamoulian and released in 1935.) Leading lady Peggy Shannon had been a Ziegfeld girl, and was being groomed by Paramount to replace Clara Bow as the new "It" Girl. Her most notable role would be the apocalyptic disaster film Deluge (1933). Alcoholism derailed her career, however, and she died of a fatal heart attack in 1941 at the age of 34 (her husband shot himself three weeks later.) Studio correspondence reveals that the Association of Motion Picture Producers had concerns that False Faces would negatively impact Hollywood's standing among plastic surgeons. Appearing in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameo during the nightclub scene is Western star Ken Maynard, playing himself.
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