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Director:

Dorothy Arzner

Writers:

Samuel Hopkins Adams (story)
E. Lloyd Sheldon (adaptation)
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Release Date:

6 April 1929 (USA) more

Genre:

Comedy | Drama more

Tagline:

The life of the party and HOW!

Plot:

Wild girls at a college pay more attention to parties than their classes. But when one party girl, Stella Ames... more | add synopsis

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Clara's first talkie more (6 total)


Cast

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Clara Bow ... Stella Ames

Fredric March ... James 'Gil' Gilmore
Marceline Day ... Faith Morgan
Shirley O'Hara ... Helen Owens
Adrienne Dore ... Babs (as Adrienne Doré)
Joyce Compton ... Eva 'Evie' Tutt
Jack Oakie ... Al
Jack Luden ... George
Phillips Holmes ... Phil
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Additional Details

Runtime:

77 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Aspect Ratio:

1.20 : 1 more

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric System)

Certification:

USA:Approved


Fun Stuff

Trivia:

One of the earliest of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by MCA ever since. more

Movie Connections:

Featured in Why Be Good? Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema (2007) more

Soundtrack:

My Wild Party Girl more


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2 out of 2 people found the following comment useful.
Clara's first talkie, 5 September 2006
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Author: JenniferA585 from United States

I'm going to have to disagree with the person who said you should watch it without the sound. You can tell its a early talkie and that all of the actresses are trying very hard to make the transition. Clara Bow was a sensational actress but she had a very hard time with sound. Its a cute film if you don't over analyze it too much. And its fun to hear what Clara sounded like. You can kind of hear her Brooklyn accent if you listen really hard. It is cheesy but its 1929! You weren't allowed to do anything in 1929! Clara is great and its unfortunate that she retired by the time she was 27. The Wild Party is about girls who don't take college seriously until Clara, who's kinda like the queen bee, meets Frederic March, who is her professor. Its fun to see what life may have been like in the early years of sound. Clara was so talented and beautiful.

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