Parlor, Bedroom and Bath
About Parlor, Bedroom and Bath
Jeffrey Haywood wants to marry Virginia Embrey, who will not marry until her older sister Angelica does. Angelica finds every man dull. Jeff's car hits timid Reggie Irving, and Jeff installs him at the Embrey house as a rich playboy. Polly Hathaway is hired to teach Reggie how to handle women, and the lesson is supposed to end in a staged meeting with Angelica at a hotel. Nita Leslie, angry at her husband, runs off to the hotel with Reggie instead. After a night of locked doors, fights, and faintings, Reggie and Angelica are left alone, and he kisses her.
Cast & crew
More about Parlor, Bedroom and Bath
Edward Sedgwick directed, and Buster Keaton produced, his third talking picture. It remakes a 1920 film of the same name, from the play by Charles William Bell and Mark Swan, which opened on Broadway on December 24, 1917, and ran 232 performances. Part of the picture was shot at Keaton's house.
Themes
Look
Leonard Smith photographed the film, including the scenes made at Keaton's house.
Preservation
The film is in the public domain in the United States because the copyright was not renewed.
Notes
- In the United Kingdom the title was Romeo in Pyjamas.
- MGM shot two foreign-language versions at the same time: Buster se marie in French and Casanova wider Willen in German.
- Charlotte Greenwood plays Polly Hathaway, Reginald Denny plays Jeffrey Haywood, Dorothy Christy plays Angelica, and Sally Eilers plays Virginia.
- The copyright was not renewed, and the film is in the public domain in the United States.
Scenes
- Jeff's car knocks Reggie down, and the scheme starts by putting him up at the Embrey house.
- Nita Leslie elopes with Reggie to the seaside hotel where Angelica was supposed to meet him.
Influenced by
- Parlor, Bedroom and Bath (play by Charles William Bell and Mark Swan, 1917)
Also available
- Internet Archive (ParlorBedroomandBath)
- Wikimedia Commons (Parlor, Bedroom and Bath (1931).webm)
