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6 April 1929 (USA)
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The life of the party and HOW!
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Wild girls at a college pay more attention to parties than their classes. But when one party girl, Stella Ames...
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The "It" Girl's first talkie doesn't quite have "It"
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(Complete credited cast) | 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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77 min
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1.20 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric System)
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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.
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Featured in Why Be Good? Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema (2007)
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My Wild Party Girl
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Clara Bow's first talkie demonstrates that it was not her voice or lack of talent which torpedoed her career in the very early 1930s, though she is not as winning here as in some of her silents (see IT). A group of slutty sorority sisters set their caps for new professor Fredric March (eerily similar to the plot of a German film which played US drive-ins in the 70s as SMARTY PANTS). Do you think he'll end up with one of the supporting players or with the femme lead?
A bit on the hokey side, and despite the come-on title, it doesn't even have a WILD PARTY. Bow looks slightly mature for a college girl, but check out Jack Oakie as a frat rat. To paraphrase Bluto, he looks like about 27 years of college shot to hell. More a curio than a classic, but tech credits are OK and the film is quite limber, under Dorothy Arzner's direction, for a 1929 talkie. For Bow at her most appealing, you still have to turn to silent films (see IT, again).