The Patsy. King Vidor, director of The Big Parade, has more recently gone in for cinemastudies of the average U. S. inhabitant (or babbitt, as some prefer). His findings are two of the finest films of ...

The Patsy (the Duke on 42nd Street) is one of the most remarkable, and one of the most peculiar, theater events I’ve ever witnessed. Precedents exist for it: The 1927 musical Show Boat, in its ...

Sunday: The 1928 silent "The Patsy" could have been shown first-run at the glorious old Heights Theater, a Beaux Arts picture palace built in 1926. True to its vintage, the theater hosts old film ...

This year’s renewal of Boulder’s popular Chautauqua Silent Film Series starts off with a showing of The Patsy (1928), King Vidor’s enduring comedy starring Marie Dressler and Marion Davies as a ...