Young Louise, by contrast, is interested only in the future and her dream of being the best dancer in the world. But she has another reason for the trip: She originally came to Kansas on an orphan train from Manhattan, and she hopes to gain more information about her past. We immediately are aware, for reasons eventually revealed, that Norma’s marriage is not in an ideal state. Denis (Otto) and Ted Shawn (Robert Fairchild), she impulsively volunteers for the job. When she hears from Louise’s mother, Myra (Victoria Hill), that Louise needs a chaperone to accompany her to classes given in New York by the biggest names in modern dance, Ruth St. The star of that event is young Louise, gamboling around the stage in neo-Isadora Duncan white robes so effectively that Norma finds herself charmed by her effervescent energy. We meet Norma in Wichita, Kan., in 1922, where she and her well-to-do husband Alan (Scott) are attending an evening of dance to benefit that city’s Children’s Home.
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Given her long association with “Downton,” it was likely second nature to McGovern to enlist the help of stalwarts Fellowes and Engler, both currently working on the forthcoming “Downton” feature, which partisans of the series (no names) are keenly awaiting. That would be producer and star Elizabeth McGovern, who came across the 2012 Laura Moriarty novel that the film is adapted from when she was hired as its audio book reader and recognized it as something she could both act in and help create.
Pabst silent classic but the blockbuster television series “Downton Abbey,” which supplied “Chaperone” with both its writer (Julian Fellowes) and director (Michael Engler) as well as the person who got it going.
The guiding spirit here, however, is not that G.W. This is more than a little ironic, because one of the film’s protagonists is the real-life Louise Brooks (played here by Haley Lu Richardson), an actress best known for 1929’s provocative “Pandora’s Box” and someone whose incendiary screen presence and free-spirited life gave decorum-seekers fits. Well-behaved and genteel from the get-go, it has its pleasures, but being wild and crazy is not one of them.
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