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 ...

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 ...

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 ...