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Puce Moment

Puce Moment is a short 6 minute film by Kenneth Anger, author of the Hollywood Babylon books, filmed in 1949. Puce Moment resulted from the unfinished short film Puce Women. The film opens with a camera watching 1920s style flapper gowns being taken off a dress rack. The dresses are removed and danced off the rack to music. (The original soundtrack was Verdi opera music; in the 1960s, Anger re-released the film with a new psychedelic folk-rock soundtrack performed by Jonathan Halper.) A long-lashed woman, Yvonne Marquis, dresses in the purple puce gown and walks to her vanity to apply perfume. She lies on a chaise lounge which then begins to move around the room and eventually out to a patio. Borzois appear and she prepares to take them for a walk.

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Puce Moment

January 1, 1949
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Cast (1)

Yvonne Marquis
Hollywood Star (uncredited)

Crew (5)

Directing

Kenneth Anger
Director

Writing

Production

Kenneth Anger
Producer

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Camera

Curtis Harrington
Director of Photography

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