The Garden of Eden
About The Garden of Eden
Toni LeBrun quits her aunt and uncle's pretzel bakery in Vienna with a diploma from a correspondence opera course. A bogus advertisement lands her at the Palais de Paris in Budapest, which wants her face, not her voice. A lighting cue puts her onstage in a see-through costume; she understands the job and flees. She turns down Henri D'Avril, and she and wardrobe woman Rosa are fired. In Monte Carlo, Rosa says she was once a baroness and lost the money. Toni and Richard Dupont fall in love on a garden walk, until D'Avril reappears and the match is thrown into doubt.
Cast & crew
More about The Garden of Eden
Lewis Milestone directed. United Artists released it on 4 February 1928. It runs 79 minutes. John Arnold photographed it. Rudolf Bernauer is the credited writer, working from Avery Hopwood's short-lived play. John W. Considine Jr. produced it with Milestone.
Themes
Preservation
Prints are at the Library of Congress, the George Eastman Museum, the UCLA Film and Television Archive, and the Filmoteca de Catalunya in Barcelona.
Notes
- Corinne Griffith plays Toni. Louise Dresser plays Rosa. Lowell Sherman plays Henri D'Avril. Charles Ray plays Richard Dupont.
- Maude George plays Madame Bauer. Edward Martindel plays Colonel Dupont.
Scenes
- A light change leaves Toni performing in a costume she had not agreed to wear.
