Directed by:
Robert Z. LeonardScreenplay:
Carey WilsonCast:
Norma Shearer, Lowell Sherman, Gwen Lee, Johnny Mack Brown, Eugenie Besserer, Buddy Messinger, Polly Moran, Charles K. French, Bert RoachPlots(1)
In her last silent film, Norma Shearer plays Dolly, aka Angel Face, a young woman engaged in blackmailing rich libertines. Cheated out of her loot by a couple of former associates, Bradley (Lowell Sherman) and Gwen (Gwen Lee), Dolly commits a bit of larceny but manages to skip town with her latest victim, Steve Crandall (Johnny Mack Brown), a Southern-fried cement tycoon whom she hastily marries. But Steve turns out to be a pauper, his much vaunted plantation actually belonging to a neighbor, and Dolly's game is up when Brad and Gwen make an unannounced arrival. But Dolly has fallen in love with her poor but hardworking husband and is ready to take her punishment. Steve, meanwhile, convinces a judge to release Dolly into his custody and the lovers are reunited. A LADY OF CHANCE was released with added dialogue scenes but none of them apparently featured Miss Shearer, who instead made her talkie debut in the courtroom melodrama THE TRIAL OF MARY DUGAN (1929). (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Norma Shearer
Canada
Best movies:
He Who Gets Slapped (1924)
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927)
Marie Antoinette (1938)
Lowell Sherman
USA
Best movies:
Way Down East (1920)
What Price Hollywood? (1932)
Ladies of Leisure (1930)
Gwen Lee
USA
Best movies:
Fury (1936)
Double Wedding (1937)
A Night at the Opera (1935)
Johnny Mack Brown
USA
Best movies:
A Woman of Affairs (1928)
Eugenie Besserer
USA
Best movies:
Flesh and the Devil (1926)
Scarface (1932)
The Jazz Singer (1927)
Buddy Messinger
USA
Best movies:
Modern Times (1936)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Test Pilot (1938)
Polly Moran
USA
Best movies:
Flesh and the Devil (1926)
Adam's Rib (1949)
The Scarlet Letter (1926)
Charles K. French
USA
Best movies:
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
Bert Roach
USA
Best movies:
Song of Love (1947)
Fury (1936)
Love Crazy (1941)