Orchids and Ermine (1927)

Orchids and Ermine DVD

First National Pictures
Starring:
 Colleen Moore, Jack Mulhall
Directed by: Alfred Santell

Synopsis: Pink Watson (Colleen Moore) is a poor switchboard operator determined to make good who applies for a job at a swanky hotel and gets into comic misadventures.

Kitty Cameo: In an early scene, Pink is daydreaming about being rich.  She has seen a woman in a car who is wearing orchids and fur.  The woman has tossed part of her corsage out of the car and Pink swoops it up, even though it has been run over.  Pink returns to her switchboard and then holds the orchid up to some white fur nearby.

Orchids and Ermine - orchid held against white cat fur

Pink then picks up the fur, which turns out to be a large long-haired white cat, and places it around her neck, pretending to be rich.

Orchids and Ermine - white long haired cat on Colleen Moore's shoulders

Eventually the cat gets tired and jumps down from her neck, interrupting her reverie.

Orchids and Ermine - white long haired cat jumps down from Colleen Moore's shoulders

Final Mewsings: Cats are too often typecast as fur pieces in films.


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