Fig Leaves

{{short description|1926 film}}

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{{Infobox film

| name = Fig Leaves

| image = Fig Leaves (1926) - 2.jpg

| caption = Advertisement

| director = Howard Hawks

| producer = William Fox

| writer = Story:
Howard Hawks
Screenplay:
Louis D. Lighton
Hope Loring

| starring = George O'Brien
Olive Borden

| cinematography = Joseph H. August

| editing = Rose Smith

| distributor = Fox Film Corporation

| released = {{Film date|1926|08|22}}

| runtime = 70 minutes

| country = United States

| language = Silent (English intertitles)

}}

File:Fig Leaves ad in Motion Picture News (weekly, July 3, 1926 to August 28, 1926) (page 557 crop).jpg

Fig Leaves is a 1926 American silent comedy film directed by Howard Hawks, released by Fox Film Corporation, and starring George O'Brien and Olive Borden.{{cite news |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/91279/Fig-Leaves/overview |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110520071057/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/91279/Fig-Leaves/overview |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 20, 2011 |title=New York Times: Fig Leaves |access-date=July 20, 2008| first=Karen |department=Movies & TV Dept. |newspaper=The New York Times |year=2011 |last=Rosenberg}} The film had a sequence, a fashion show, that was filmed in 2-strip Technicolor.{{cite web |url=http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/F/FigLeaves1926.html |title=Progressive Silent Film List: Fig Leaves |access-date=July 20, 2008|work=silentera.com}}

Plot

A married couple is juxtaposed in the Garden of Eden and in modern New York City. The Garden of Eden humorously depicts Adam (played by George O'Brien) and Eve (played by Olive Borden) awoken by a Flintstones-like coconut alarm clock and Adam reading the morning news on giant stone tablets. In the modern day, the biblical serpent is replaced by Eve's gossiping neighbor and Eve becomes a sexy flapper and fashion model when Adam is at work.

Cast

Preservation

A print of Fig Leaves survives in the film archive of the Museum of Modern Art.

See also

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