{"id":4682,"date":"2015-05-20T07:34:35","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T11:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/event\/frisco-jenny-screening\/"},"modified":"2015-05-20T07:34:35","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T11:34:35","slug":"frisco-jenny-screening","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/event\/frisco-jenny-screening\/","title":{"rendered":"Frisco Jenny screening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At 2 p.m., the Dryden will screen <strong>Frisco Jenny<\/strong> (William A. Wellman, U.S. 1932, 73 min., 35mm). <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ruth Chatterton suffers her way through this sweeping pre-Code story that spans the early 20th century, from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake through to the bootlegging Prohibition era. When her fianc&eacute; is killed just before their nuptials can \"legitimize\" the baby she's carrying, Chatterton turns to prostitution to support her son. She climbs the ranks to become a top procurer of female flesh and illegal alcohol, before taking the rap for a murder committed by slimy and powerful friend Louis Calhern and losing her son to foster care. And it's even further downhill from there, culminating with a mother's secret sacrifice for her son. Wellman directs this familiar story reminiscent of Madame X (filmed several times, and with Chatterton starring in the 1929 version) with his usual frankness, yet with sympathy toward the pre-Code woman trying to navigate her way through (or escape from) illicit relationships, blackmail, and the law. Look for Wellman in a cameo as a reporter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <em>[source: <a HREF=\"https:\/\/dryden.eastmanhouse.org\/films\/2015\/04\/frisco-jenny\/\">Dryden website<\/a>, 2015-May-18]<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 2 p.m., the Dryden will screen Frisco Jenny (William A. Wellman, U.S. 1932, 73 min., 35mm). Ruth Chatterton suffers her way through this sweeping pre-Code story that spans the early 20th century, from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake through &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/event\/frisco-jenny-screening\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[2767],"class_list":["post-4682","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tribe_events_cat-jayceland-2015-may-21","cat_jayceland-2015-may-21"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/4682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/4682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4682"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=4682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}