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Bookmark this pageThe Wild Party (1929)
Director: Dorothy Arzner
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From Time Out Film Guide
A mischievous silent film featuring Clara Bow as Stella, a flighty girl with hair of fluff and heart (finally) of gold. In a transatlantic tale of the Angela Brazil genre, Stella's good-time girl stereotype is challenged a) by another student for whom studying is a serious thing, and b) by a heroic professor whose savage heart beats beneath a pocket of tweed and a respect for learning. Despite the dashing moral ending, it's a very enjoyable film, and Arzner handles the exposition of and challenge to the stereotype very astutely, especially in a scene of sexually violent response by some men in a bar to a deliberately provocative bevy of girls.Author: MV
Cast & crew
Director: Dorothy Arzner
Cast: Clara Bow, Fredric March, Shirley O'Hara, Marceline Day, Joyce Compton, Jack Oakie, Phillips Holmes, Adrienne Dore, Jack Luden full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 77 mins
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