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City Girl (1930), Oregon Sesquicentennial Film Festival
A wheat farming family goes into crisis when the eldest son returns from the city married to the first waitress to pour him coffee. In many ways a study for the better known Tabu (1931), Murnau's City Girl follows his first American masterpiece, Sunrise (1927).
City Girl was conceived as a silent film. Shot in 1928, the production was disrupted by the advent of sound. Producer William Fox wanted City Girl to use the new technology; Murnau resisted. Fox won and Murnau renounced his involvement, abandoning the production which Fox oversaw to completion. In this sense, City Girl is a lost film. We will never see the film's original ending.
A part talkie version was released in 1930. A print of the silent version (as it was finished after Murnau's departure) was discovered after the film had long been forgotten and given up for lost.
John Paul will conduct a chamber orchestra performing his original score for City Girl.
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LocationMarylhurst University
17600 Pacific Hwy (Hwy 43)
Marylhurst, OR 97036
United States
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