--- title: 'The Patsy (1928)' type: 'film' director: 'King Vidor' released: '1928-01-01' runtime_minutes: 78 genres: - 'Comedy' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-patsy-1928' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0019258/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # The Patsy (1928) 1928 · 78 min · Comedy · United States ## Synopsis The Patsy is a 1928 American silent comedy-drama film directed by King Vidor, co-produced by and starring Marion Davies for Cosmopolitan Productions, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was based on a play of the same name by Barry Conners, and served as Marie Dressler's comeback film after a long slump in her film career. Davies played the dowdy and downtrodden Patricia, the younger daughter in a household ruled by an imperious mother (Dressler) and selfish sister. ## Credits - **Director:** [King Vidor](https://cinepixo.com/people/king-vidor) - **Screenplay:** [Agnes Christine Johnston](https://cinepixo.com/people/agnes-christine-johnston), [Ralph Spence](https://cinepixo.com/people/ralph-spence), [Barry Conners](https://cinepixo.com/people/barry-conners) - **Producer:** [Manuela Gómez](https://cinepixo.com/people/manuela-gomez), [King Vidor](https://cinepixo.com/people/king-vidor), [William Randolph Hearst](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-randolph-hearst) - **Original Music Composer:** [Vivek Maddala](https://cinepixo.com/people/vivek-maddala) - **Director of Photography:** [John F. Seitz](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-f-seitz) - **Editor:** [Hugh Wynn](https://cinepixo.com/people/hugh-wynn) ## Cast - [Manuela Gómez](https://cinepixo.com/people/manuela-gomez) - [Marie Dressler](https://cinepixo.com/people/marie-dressler) - [Jane Winton](https://cinepixo.com/people/jane-winton) - [Orville Caldwell](https://cinepixo.com/people/orville-caldwell) - [Dell Henderson](https://cinepixo.com/people/dell-henderson) - [Lawrence Gray](https://cinepixo.com/people/lawrence-gray) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-patsy-1928 Film facts: Wikidata (Q3549531); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.