Poor Mrs. Jones! (original) (raw)
Poor Mrs. Jones (1926) is a 46-minute, black-and-white comedy, drama and family silent film produced by the United States Department of Agriculture in 1925 and released in 1926. It was directed by Raymond Evans, a former newspaperman. Shot on location in Washington, DC and at a farm in Maryland, the film features Gone with the Wind actress Leona Roberts as Jane Jones, a 1920s rural housewife tired of a grueling and unglamorous day-to-day life. She takes a vacation to the city where she stays with her sister Hattie, played by Maud Howell Smith. The USDA produced this film as 1920s propaganda promoting agriculture and farm life as more virtuous and wholesome than life in the city.
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| dbo:abstract | Poor Mrs. Jones (1926) is a 46-minute, black-and-white comedy, drama and family silent film produced by the United States Department of Agriculture in 1925 and released in 1926. It was directed by Raymond Evans, a former newspaperman. Shot on location in Washington, DC and at a farm in Maryland, the film features Gone with the Wind actress Leona Roberts as Jane Jones, a 1920s rural housewife tired of a grueling and unglamorous day-to-day life. She takes a vacation to the city where she stays with her sister Hattie, played by Maud Howell Smith. The USDA produced this film as 1920s propaganda promoting agriculture and farm life as more virtuous and wholesome than life in the city. New York Times film critic Dave Kehr notes: "[F]rom a purely artistic point of view, the discovery of this round is "Poor Mrs. Jones!", a government propaganda film [that] makes use of the stubbornly unsentimental realism pioneered by the Scandinavian filmmakers of the 1910s to teach a simple lesson: Farm life may be grim and oppressive, but city life is infinitely worse. Even within the government bureaucracy, it seems, there were artists struggling to express themselves, and in this case with skill and vision." "Poor Mrs. Jones!" has been curated as part of "Treasures III: Social Issues in American Film 1900–1934", a well-researched, annotated collection of rare films from national film archives. It catalogs issues most concerning to America in the first three decades of the 20th century. Social Issues in American Film 1900–1934 Film curator Glenn Erickson considers "Poor Mrs Jones! "practically [a] work of art..."beautifully made on all counts." (en) |
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| rdfs:comment | Poor Mrs. Jones (1926) is a 46-minute, black-and-white comedy, drama and family silent film produced by the United States Department of Agriculture in 1925 and released in 1926. It was directed by Raymond Evans, a former newspaperman. Shot on location in Washington, DC and at a farm in Maryland, the film features Gone with the Wind actress Leona Roberts as Jane Jones, a 1920s rural housewife tired of a grueling and unglamorous day-to-day life. She takes a vacation to the city where she stays with her sister Hattie, played by Maud Howell Smith. The USDA produced this film as 1920s propaganda promoting agriculture and farm life as more virtuous and wholesome than life in the city. (en) |
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