My Best Girl

Director: Sam Taylor
USA. 1927.
88 minutes. Tinted.

Cast: Mary Pickford, Buddy Rogers, Sunshine Hart, Lucien Littlefield, Carmelita Geraghty, Hobart Bosworth and Mack Swain.

Thanks to the superb work of Sam Taylor (one of Harold Lloyd's favorite directors), legendary cinematographer Charles Rosher and producer/star Mary Pickford, My Best Girl has become one of Hollywood's greatest romantic comedies, pairing Pickford with husband-to-be Charles "Buddy" Rogers.

Maggie is a lowly shopgirl in a big-city five-and-ten-cent store. She meets Joe who has just started out in the stockroom. Unbeknownst to her, Joe is the owner's son, trying to prove himself to his wealthy family. Falling in love with Maggie, Joe gives up his society sweetheart Millicent. Learning of this, the boy's father unsuccessfully tries to buy Maggie off. Realizing that because of her, Joe is going to be cut-off from his family, she poses as a floozy golddigger (in one of Mary Pickford's great comic scenes) to convince him to let her go. When the father finds out of her sacrifice, he discovers the error of his ways and agrees to their marriage.

Bonus Features

Newsreel footage of the marriage of Buddy Rogers and Mary Pickford, as well as home movies of their life together.

Reviews

"As film, as comedy, as representation of one of the screen's greatest stars, My Best Girl is a winner." - Leonard Maltin

"The movie glows... The kind of love affair that everyone, at least one time, has wanted to have." - Seattle Times