The Godless Girl (1929) | |
| Director(s) | Cecil B. DeMille |
| Producer(s) | Cecil B. DeMille |
| Top Genres | Drama |
| Top Topics | Pre-Code Cinema |
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The Godless Girl (1929) was a Drama - Black-and-white Film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and produced by Cecil B. DeMille.
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Cecil B. DeMille’s “The Godless Girl” – Lina Basquette
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According to journalist Dorothy Donnell, director Cecil B. DeMille spent eight months and $200,000 on research before the production began. This included the enrolling of a young male informant into a boy's reform school and a female informant into a girl's school. Two large scrapbooks were kept in DeMille's archive, containing sworn testimonials by many former inmates, with graphic descriptions of the brutalities they endured. Donnell later said, "I have seen these books, and read in them things so revolting that they will probably never be printed."
The authentic-looking reform school set was built by Mitchell Leisen on a Culver City back lot. For the climactic fire scene, in which the whole set burned down, Leisen had the actors' clothes sprayed with asbestos and even devised a way to fireproof their hair.
The film was such a huge flop on its initial release, and proved to be such a financial strain on Cecil B. DeMille's production company, that he was forced to accept a three-picture contract with MGM, where he made his next film, Dynamite, released later that same year.
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The authentic-looking reform school set was built by Mitchell Leisen on a Culver City back lot. For the climactic fire scene, in which the whole set burned down, Leisen had the actors' clothes sprayed with asbestos and even devised a way to fireproof their hair.
The film was such a huge flop on its initial release, and proved to be such a financial strain on Cecil B. DeMille's production company, that he was forced to accept a three-picture contract with MGM, where he made his next film, Dynamite, released later that same year.
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