MADEMOISELLE MODISTE

Original U.S. 12 1/4 inch x 18 inch Advertisement for the 1926 Robert Z. Leonard Romantic Comedy MADEMOISELLE MODISTE, based on the 1905 operetta by Victor Herbert & Henry Blossom and starring Corinne Griffith, Norman Kerry, Willard Louis, Dorothy Cumming and Rose Dione.

Corinne Griffith was executive producer on this film.

Hiram Bent (Willard Louis), a St. Louis hat dealer, goes to Paris with his conservative, prudish wife. At a fashion show, Madame Claire (Rose Dione) fails to interest them and sends for Fifi (Corinne Griffith), a particularly successful model and, saleswoman who makes a large sale and wins Hiram’s admiration. While delivering a hat to the fiancée of Étienne Du Beauvray, Fifi complains to an officer (actually Étienne) about his horse destroying the hat; so Fifi is forced to improvise a hat for Marianne. Later, Étienne (Norman Kerry) meets Fifi at the salon, and a romance develops. Impressed by her sales ability, Bent buys out Madame Claire and establishes Fifi as “Mademoiselle Modiste.” Étienne, suspicious of Bent’s activities, challenges him to a duel, but the misunderstanding is soon cleared up and Fifi is happily united with Étienne.

The Advertisement is in very good condition with one vertical centre fold and 8 staple holes along it.