
Sam Taylor, United Artists, 1927. Pickford is a stockroom girl in a five-and-dime; Charles "Buddy" Rogers is the owner's son working under another name. They fall in among the crates. She was playing her own age, which is the news. This was her last silent. The stockroom business, the crate ballet, is the layout that looks like a director and a star agreeing.
The last silent, and she is playing her own age. A stockroom girl, the owner's son under another name, and a fall among the crates. Watch the crate ballet. A woman finally allowed to be her own age on screen, and it plays like relief.