Top cast:Mack Sennett,Fred Mace,Ford Sterling
Director:Dexter Fletcher
Genre:Music
Region:Italy
Year:2022
Storyline:Plot SynopsisIn the film""s plot, 20 year-old alcoholic ex-prostitute Anna "Christie" Christofferson (or Gustafson) (24 year-old Greta Garbo), a world-weary and ailing, man-hating Swedish-American, returned home to New York after a long absence (including being raised since the age of 5 on a Minnesota farm by abusive relatives and working in a St.Phyllis: Just my name.Neff: As for instance?Phyllis: Phyllis.Neff: Phyllis, huh.I think I like that.Phyllis: But you""re not sure.Neff: I""d have to drive it around the block a couple of times.Phyllis: (Standing up.) Mr.Neff, why don""t you drop by tomorrow evening around 8:30? He""ll be in then.Neff: Who?Phyllis: My husband.You were anxious to talk tohim, weren""t you?Neff: Yeah, I was.But I""m sort of getting over the idea, if you know what I mean.Phyllis: There""s a speed limit in this state, Mr.Neff, 45 miles an hour.Neff: How fast was I going, Officer?Phyllis: I""d say around 90.Neff: Suppose you get down off your motorcycle and give me a ticket.Phyllis: Suppose I let you off with a warning this time.Neff: Suppose it doesn""t take.Phyllis: Suppose I have to whack you over the knuckles.Neff: Suppose I bust out crying and put my head on your shoulder.Phyllis: Suppose you try putting it on my husband""s shoulder.Neff: That tears it...(He takes his hat and briefcase after his advances are coldly rebuffed.) 8:30 tomorrow evening, then.Phyllis: That""s what I suggested.Neff: You""ll be here too?Phyllis: I guess so.I usually am.Neff: Same chair, same perfume, same anklet?Phyllis: I wonder if I know what you mean.Neff: (Opening the entrance door.) I wonder if you wonder.After his first encounter with her, there is a clear mutual sexual attraction between them.In hindsight, Walter mostly remembers the pure physical magnetism he felt for her lethal "honeysuckle" perfume smell (purchased by Phyllis in Ensenada - across the border, she later tells him) - even though he realizes she had a strangely calculating look:It was a hot afternoon, and I can still remember he smell of honeysuckle all along that street.And become America""s hottest new actress."1982 became known astheyear with many Academy Award-nominated cross-dressing, gender-reversed, drag or transvestite performances/ roles with confused sexual identities:Julie Andrews earned a Best Actress nomination forVictor/Victoria (1982)as Victoria Grant, the title role singer who pretended o be gay Polish cabaret singer Count Victor Grezhinski, while co-star Robert Preston received a Best Supporting Actor nomination as her gay partner-in-crime Carroll "Toddy" Todd, who ended up in drag during the finale singing "Shady Dame From Seville"John Lithgow was given a Best Supporting Actor nomination for playing trans-sexual (sex-changed) ex-football player Roberta Muldoon inThe World According to Garp (1982)and then in 1983, Linda Hunt won Best Supporting Actress for the male role of Chinese-Australian photographer Billy Kwan in the next year""sThe Year of Living Dangerously (1983)Many other cross-dressing comedies - in the guise of examining male-female sex roles - played upon the same main features of this film, beginning with:I Was a Male War Bride (1949), by director Howard Hawks, with Cary Grant as a dress-wearing female to comply with the War Brides ActTorch Song Trilogy (1988), by director Paul Bogart, about witty drag queen actor/playwright Arnold Beckoff (Harvey Fierstein) in a film adaptation of the smash Broadway play of the same nameMrs." Her half-a-ton headstone had been vandalized from the grave site and replaced with a mutilated dead coyote on a cross of sticks, angering the graveskeeper.