....urged the ads at the time.
What planet are some of these reviewers on - "it is best played with the sound down", "Clara Bow was an actress who could not succeed in talkies"!!! "The Wild Party" was easily Clara's best from her early talkie period and showed that she had nothing to fear from the "talkies" - her Bronx twang was how the movie going public expected her to sound. Her popularity had reached it's peak and "The Wild Party" stuck to Bow's tried and true formula. As the film's production progressed, Clara became more distraught about how her voice recorded. With the influx of stage stars and vocal coaches, the atmosphere was not conducive to confidence - "the only star who didn't fear the mike was Rin Tin Tin"!! Clara need have no fear - her voice was successful, critics praised her and when cinemas played the movie, business skyrocketed - everyone wanted to hear her talk.
Sizzling with vivacity, Clara plays Stella Ames, the most madcap and popular girl at college. She is eager to tell of an adventure that happened to her on a train - she gets into the wrong sleeping compartment and comes face to face with Fredric March - who just happens to be the new Professor of Anthropology, James Gilmore!!!
After being ejected from a college costume party for being skimpily dressed, Stella and her pals end up at a roadhouse where they meet a group of rowdy drunks. Things get out of hand and Stella finds herself in real trouble when she becomes a "decoy" so her friends can escape. She is rescued by Gil, who then lectures her on the merits of hard work and diligence Vs her wild ways and bringing the college into disrepute. Things go from bad to worse when an essay that Stella has worked on all night is held up to ridicule and worse - plagiarism!!! by Gil to the entire class!! Stella plunges into a round of parties, but in the meantime Gil is shot by those same drunken rowdies who return looking for vengeance. There is never a dull moment as Stella visits a recuperating Gil but Evie (Joyce Compton), the college snitch, finds Stella's shoe buckle in the bushes. She also finds some love letters written by Helen, the "good girl" of college, who is hoping to take out the top prize but if the letters are revealed she won't stand a chance. Stella comes to Helen's aid and claims the letters are her own and as the movie draws to a close, she and Gil are on a train, planning their future in the Malayan jungle!!!
The plot was jammed pack with action - what, I suppose, the picture going public really thought college was like in those times. The movie also introduced a couple of "likely lads" - Phillips Holmes as Stella's "wild party" date and Jack Oakie as a drunken college bore. There was Marceline Day as prim and proper Faith, Adrienne Dore, who seemed most at ease in front of the camera, as Babs and Shirley O'Hara, who as Helen, had a reasonable part and proved to be a natural actress - this was her last film!!
Highly Recommended.
What planet are some of these reviewers on - "it is best played with the sound down", "Clara Bow was an actress who could not succeed in talkies"!!! "The Wild Party" was easily Clara's best from her early talkie period and showed that she had nothing to fear from the "talkies" - her Bronx twang was how the movie going public expected her to sound. Her popularity had reached it's peak and "The Wild Party" stuck to Bow's tried and true formula. As the film's production progressed, Clara became more distraught about how her voice recorded. With the influx of stage stars and vocal coaches, the atmosphere was not conducive to confidence - "the only star who didn't fear the mike was Rin Tin Tin"!! Clara need have no fear - her voice was successful, critics praised her and when cinemas played the movie, business skyrocketed - everyone wanted to hear her talk.
Sizzling with vivacity, Clara plays Stella Ames, the most madcap and popular girl at college. She is eager to tell of an adventure that happened to her on a train - she gets into the wrong sleeping compartment and comes face to face with Fredric March - who just happens to be the new Professor of Anthropology, James Gilmore!!!
After being ejected from a college costume party for being skimpily dressed, Stella and her pals end up at a roadhouse where they meet a group of rowdy drunks. Things get out of hand and Stella finds herself in real trouble when she becomes a "decoy" so her friends can escape. She is rescued by Gil, who then lectures her on the merits of hard work and diligence Vs her wild ways and bringing the college into disrepute. Things go from bad to worse when an essay that Stella has worked on all night is held up to ridicule and worse - plagiarism!!! by Gil to the entire class!! Stella plunges into a round of parties, but in the meantime Gil is shot by those same drunken rowdies who return looking for vengeance. There is never a dull moment as Stella visits a recuperating Gil but Evie (Joyce Compton), the college snitch, finds Stella's shoe buckle in the bushes. She also finds some love letters written by Helen, the "good girl" of college, who is hoping to take out the top prize but if the letters are revealed she won't stand a chance. Stella comes to Helen's aid and claims the letters are her own and as the movie draws to a close, she and Gil are on a train, planning their future in the Malayan jungle!!!
The plot was jammed pack with action - what, I suppose, the picture going public really thought college was like in those times. The movie also introduced a couple of "likely lads" - Phillips Holmes as Stella's "wild party" date and Jack Oakie as a drunken college bore. There was Marceline Day as prim and proper Faith, Adrienne Dore, who seemed most at ease in front of the camera, as Babs and Shirley O'Hara, who as Helen, had a reasonable part and proved to be a natural actress - this was her last film!!
Highly Recommended.