Panther Woman of the Needle Trades, or The Lovely Life of Little Lisa 93 years old

The photographer Ralph Steiner, who had been making abstract avant-garde films in the late 1920s, contributed his own parody of American economic life with PANTHER WOMAN OF THE NEEDLE TRADES, OR THE LOVELY LIFE OF LITTLE LISA (1931). The film, which opens with Jehovah (Morris Carnovsky) creating the world out of a test tube, proceeds to present a short history of the universe before the birth of Elizabeth Hawes (1903), the heroine of the film’s title. It then follows her career from childhood seamstress to Parisian designer of haute couture via a college education at Vassar. Reminiscent of Robert Florey’s THE LIFE AND DEATH OF 9413—A HOLLYWOOD EXTRA (1928) in terms of its art direction and elliptical narrative style, PANTHER WOMAN is a parody of the all-American success story, a young woman’s fantasy of a glamorous career in an age of diminishing possibilities. (via: http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/articles/pages/2902/Avant-Garde-Film.html)

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Panther Woman of the Needle Trades, or The Lovely Life of Little Lisa Cast

Name	Character
Morris Carnovsky He was 33, 94 years old when he died

Panther Woman of the Needle Trades, or The Lovely Life of Little Lisa Crew

Name	Department
Ralph Steiner as Director. He was 31 (87) years old when He died	Directing