manager F.W. Murnau get down metropolis miss as a soundless movie, hope to fit the artistic victory of his earliest dawn. Murnau was thwart by two elements: Fox’s determination to hurriedly change over the movie into a talking picture, and his inability to procure the services of dawn star Janet Gaynor. The manager was coerce by the studio to replace the pretty but talentless Virgin Mary Isadora Duncan, reportedly because she was the girlfriend of one of the Fox executive.