Look Your Best
{{short description|1923 film}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2020}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Look Your Best
| director = Rupert Hughes
| image = Look Your Best lobby card.jpg
| caption = Lobby card
| screenplay = Rupert Hughes
| story = Rupert Hughes
| cinematography = Norbert Brodin
| released = {{Film date|1923|02|18|U.S.}}
| studio = Goldwyn Pictures Corporation
| distributor = Goldwyn Distributing Company
| runtime = 6 reels
| country = United States
| language = Silent (English intertitles)
}}
Look Your Best or The Bitterness of Sweets{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6gzhHmLmxm8C&pg=PA98 |title=Colleen Moore: A Biography of the Silent Film Star |first=Jeff |last=Codori |publisher=McFarland Publishing |date=April 19, 2012 |page=98 |isbn=978-0-7864-8899-5}} is a 1923 American comedy silent black and white film directed and written by Rupert Hughes.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d4TNXDqZIMUC&pg=PA77 |title=Catalogue of Copyright Entries |first=Jon |last=Orwant |page=77}} It stars Antonio Moreno and Colleen Moore.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zT1-QjkLnToC&pg=PA99 |title=Golden Images: 41 Essays on Silent Film Stars |first=Eve |last=Golden |author-link=Eve Golden |publisher=McFarland Publishing |date=November 13, 2015 |page=99 |isbn=9780786483549}}
Plot
As described in a film magazine,{{cite journal |title=The Pauper Millionaire: Goldwyn Photoplay in Six Parts |journal=Exhibitor's Trade Review |volume=13 |issue=13 |page=676 |publisher=Exhibitor's Trade Review, Inc. |location=East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania |date=February 24, 1923 |url=https://archive.org/details/exhibitorst00newy}} young Italian woman Perla Quaranta (Moore) dances in the streets to the music from her father's barrel organ. Her grace attracts the attention of Carlo Bruni (Moreno), manager of a small theatrical troupe. He hires her to replace an actress who has grown overweight due to her overindulgence with food. Perla makes good with this chance, though she too gives into the temptation of pies, cakes, and other pastries. Carlo is also given into overeating, with his figure suffering and his dancing powers impaired. Perla begins to take on weight, just like her predecessor. She repulses an attempt by a stage hand, Krug (Metcalfe), to court her. In revenge, he tampers with the wire used by Perla when performing her butterfly act. Carlo suspects Krug and thrashes him. Carlo then receives a sentence of thirty days in jail for this assault. Meanwhile, Perla, in her convalescence, is almost won by a baker who describes the tempting pastries he makes. When Carlo returns after serving his sentence, he and Perla resolve to diet steadily and win fame as dancers. They do so and are married into the bargain.
Cast
- Colleen Moore as Perla Quaranta
- Antonio Moreno as Carlo Bruni
- William Orlamond as Pietro
- Orpha Alba as Nella
- Earl Metcalfe as Krug
- Martha Mattox as Mrs. Blitz
- Francis McDonald as Alberto Cabotto
Preservation
No copies of Look Your Best are listed in any film archives,[http://lcweb2.loc.gov:8081/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.7038/default.html Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Look Your Best] making this a lost film.
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