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Wild Party (The)
- Director: Dorothy Arzner
- Writer: Samuel Hopkins Adams; E. Lloyd Sheldon
- Producer: E. Lloyd Sheldon
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Wild girls at a college pay more attention to parties than their classes. But when one party girl, Stella Ames, goes too far at a local bar and gets in trouble, her professor has to rescue her. Gossip linking the two escalates until Stella proves she is decent by shielding an innocent girl and winning the professor's respect.
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The(ir) Blurb...
Though officially closeted, as a lesbian filmmaker in the classical Hollywood era, Dorothy Arzner was a unique figure. Following her time as an editor, she eventually worked her way up to the director’s chair with 1927’s Fashions for Women, and would go on to earn a reputation as a star-maker, kick-starting the careers of Lucille Ball (Dance, Girl, Dance) and Rosalind Russell (Craig’s Wife), among others. As Paramount’s first sound movie, The Wild Party marked a turning point for both Arzner and the industry. Clara Bow, the original “It” girl, stars as a student at a women’s college who is “The life of the party and HOW!” Though the plot is driven by the vicissitudes of her blossoming romance with a young anthropology professor, modern audiences are likely to be just as intrigued by the film’s account of female friendship, and the sapphic implication of the homosocial milieu.
Cast & Characters
Clara Bow as Stella Ames;
Fredric March as James Gilmore;
Marceline Day as Faith Morgan;
Shirley O'Hara as Helen;
Adrienne Dore as Babs;
Joyce Compton as Eva Tutt;
Jack Oakie as Al;
Jack Luden as George;
Phillips Holmes as Phil;
Alice Adair as Mazie;
Kay Bryant as Thelma;
Marguerite Cramer as Gwen;
Ben Hendricks Jr. as Ed;
Amo Ingraham as Jean;
Jean Lorraine as Ann