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The Cat's Pajamas (1926) is an American silent film directed by William A. Wellman and released on August 29, 1926. The movie starred Betty Bronson as Sally Winton and Ricardo Cortez as Don Cesare Gracco. Other stars of the film are Gordon Griffith as Jack, Theodore Roberts as Sally's father, and Arlette Marchal as Riza. The film has been lost to time. Only stills, posters, and newspaper advertisements survive.
PLOT:
Sally Winton works as a seamstress for a fashionable modiste. She supports her crippled father and adores her kitten, Tommy. She is loved by Jack, a taxi driver, but is in love with Don Cesare Graco, an operatic sensation.
Sally being a fan attends an opera performance, and brings Tommy with her. Tommy would escape from Sally and ends up backstage in the cloakroom. Don Cesare was talking to reporters back there and spotted the kitten. He then tells the reporters that he'd marry the first woman that the kitten leads him to. Which was a temperamental dancer, Riza.
The cat then becomes big news and was even given a diamond necklace for leading Don Cesare to Riza. Rixa though was jealous of Don Cesare's publicity and so she decides to postpone the wedding even refusing to try on her wedding dress.
Sally was then recruited as a model and Don Cesare ends up proposing to Sally. Sally would accept, but after the marriage, she wanted to teach him a lesson. She leaves him and a series of complications follow. It would end with the couple reconciled.
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