I've only recently begun watching Marion Davies movies, and so far, with each I've had a distinctly mixed reaction. Davies both annoys and charms.
In Peg o' My Heart, certain aspects of her performance strike me as both good and bad. The foremost example being her attempted Irish accent. Near the beginning, my husband said how awful he thought the accent was. I countered that I thought it was pretty good. By the end of the film, we'd switched positions.
As with the fact that she was far too old to be playing a teen, her enthusiastically going for the accent, despite it being somewhat ridiculous, was fairly charming as well as rather irritating.
Tipping the scales more on the irritating than charming side were her unnecessary stabs at singing & dancing.
Some things were just plain irritating. For instance, the way they weren't happy to put her in pigtails but decided to wire them so they stuck out and flipped up ludicrously, Pippi Longstocking style.
Overall, 50/50. Meaning I had to round up or down from 5.5 and I went with down. Hence, 5 out of 10.
In Peg o' My Heart, certain aspects of her performance strike me as both good and bad. The foremost example being her attempted Irish accent. Near the beginning, my husband said how awful he thought the accent was. I countered that I thought it was pretty good. By the end of the film, we'd switched positions.
As with the fact that she was far too old to be playing a teen, her enthusiastically going for the accent, despite it being somewhat ridiculous, was fairly charming as well as rather irritating.
Tipping the scales more on the irritating than charming side were her unnecessary stabs at singing & dancing.
Some things were just plain irritating. For instance, the way they weren't happy to put her in pigtails but decided to wire them so they stuck out and flipped up ludicrously, Pippi Longstocking style.
Overall, 50/50. Meaning I had to round up or down from 5.5 and I went with down. Hence, 5 out of 10.