Du Barry, Woman of Passion

Typical early talkie, a little stiff. However, when Norma Talmadge is on screen she is vivacious and wonderful.

For nearly 20 years Norma Talmadge was one of early cinema's 5 greatest superstars (The others being Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Chaplin and Gloria Swanson). Supposedly she had a dreadful NEW YORK accent like Jean Hagen's silent queen parody in "Singin in the Rain"(1952).