Get Your Man (1927 film)
1927 film by Dorothy Arzner
Get Your Man is a 1927 American silent romantic comedy film produced by Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation and directed by Dorothy Arzner. The film stars Clara Bow, Charles "Buddy" Rogers, and Josef Swickard. The Library of Congress holds an incomplete print of this film, missing two out of six reels. Paramount did not renew this film's copyright in 1955, so the film is now in the public domain.
Plot
A young girl named Nancy falls in love with handsome Robert. He is to marry soon, yet Nancy develops a plan to finally get him.
Nancy, an American on an unchaperoned trip to Paris, encounters Robert several times in her first day - vying for a taxi in front of her hotel, at a jewelry store, and later in a wax museum. Their mutual attraction is evident. Robert and Simone are engaged to be married, the result of an agreement between their two noble families when Robert was very young and his fiancee an infant. He leaves to spend the weekend at his father's estate with Simone and her father to plan the wedding.
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