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Frisco Jenny is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by William A. Wellman and starring Ruth Chatterton and Louis Calhern. Its story bears a resemblance to Madame X (1929), Chatterton's previous hit film.
Jan 10, 2016 · It’s often-hazy association with Madame X and its gleeful depiction of vice would keep the film in the vault for decades, which left it a nice surprise for when Warner Bros. began their Forbidden Hollywood series of DVDs.
Frisco Jenny: Directed by William A. Wellman. With Ruth Chatterton, Louis Calhern, Helen Jerome Eddy, Donald Cook. The San Francisco earthquake shakes up the life of Jenny, a madam who gives birth to an illegitimate son and gives him up to protect him.
Apr 8, 2022 · This is sort of like Madame X with an earthquake. The earthquake is the best part. The story is set in San Francisco just prior to the 1906 earthquake and fire. Frisco Jenny Sandoval helps her abusive father (Robert Emmet O’Conner) run a low-rent saloon on the Barbary Coast. She is in charge of the many prostitutes that ply their trade there.
Frisco Jenny bears resemblance to another Chatterton vehicle called Madame X (1929), where a woman must give up her illegitimate son, and he ends up being her defense lawyer years later. Tropes: Affectionate Pickpocket: The woman at the brothel is shown sitting on a drunken man's lap.
It shares a similar situation with Chatterton's earlier Madame X, but Jenny is a woman completely displaced by the 1906 earthquake. She loses her father, her fiancé, and her whole way of life, plus, she's pregnant.
The Ruth Chatterton of her glorious success “Madame X" and ; “Sarah and Son’’ returned to the screen at the Plaza theater Sunday in First National’s colorful drama of the Barbary Coast ' “Frisco Jenny,’’ and gave the i greatest performance of her ca-
