The Wicked Darling
Overview
 
The Wicked Darling is a 1919 silent
Silent film
A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, pantomime and title cards...

 drama film
Drama film
A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

 directed by Tod Browning
Tod Browning
Tod Browning was an American motion picture actor, director and screenwriter.Browning's career spanned the silent and talkie eras...

. The film was considered to be a lost film
Lost film
A lost film is a feature film or short film that is no longer known to exist in studio archives, private collections or public archives such as the Library of Congress, where at least one copy of all American films are deposited and catalogued for copyright reasons...

, until a copy was found in Europe in the 1990s. The copy now resides in the Nederlands Filmmuseum.
Quotations

I am in a dress, I have gel in my hair, I haven't slept all night, I'm starved, AND I'm armed! Don't MESS with me!

Look, she's gonna cry again. [imitating winner] 'Oh, if I only had a brain."'

Hey! I'm GLIDING here!

Dalai Llama, Dalai Llama, Dalai Llama...snorts

[as a guard dog barks at her' Oh, fine, have it you little...donut Nazi! [pulls a donut out from her bra and throws it at the dog.]

I'm sarcastic?! When everything that comes out of YOUR mouth is dripping with disdain?

:[After throughout the whole movie mocking people about ALWAYS wanting world peace]':[tearing up]'And I really do want world peace.

I'm sorry, what was the question? I was distracted by the half-masticated cow rolling around in your wide-open trap.

There are no words.

Smilers wear a crown, losers wear a frown.

 
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