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6 April 1929 (USA) moreTagline:
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 synopsisUser Comments:
A sign of "Its" time moreCast
(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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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. moreSoundtrack:
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The first thing I had to wonder, just prior to watching "The Wild Party" was whether or not it was based on the novelette I'd ripped through, just a month or so ago: The Wild Party by Joseph Mancuso March--originally published in 1928. Discovering that this was a very different story was my only disappointment.
It often seems that no small number of people, out there, don't want to give the early days of Hollywood the credit it so richly deserves. And that's sad; as sad as, say, the somewhat dark story behind "It" Girl, Clara Bow--whose mother considered slitting the girl's throat when Clara declared her she wanted to be an actress.
(Fortunately that didn't happen. If it had, film fans of today might not have an inkling of a clue that, even way back then--in the days that would become infamously known as "The Great Depression"--girls just wanted to have fun.)
Clara Bow plays her role of mischievous college girl, Stella Ames, to-the-hilt. And a young, debonaire Frederic March as straight-laced college professor Gilmore is her perfect counterpart.
The way the two begin seeing eye-to-eye may be said to be expected, but not totally predictable--because the antics of Stella Ames and her sorority sisters provide just the right element of subplot. If there was any one flaw in this gem, it was that the sound quality was often so scratchy, I was unsure, now and again, what one actor or another had said.
Still, this in no way detracts from the film's overall quality. (One must taken into account, after all, that 1929 was the infancy of the "talkie" era). Come to think of it, I can
only imagine what a "wild party" '29 must've been for many Hollywood executives and stars alike--the huge stock market crash aside!