The Wild Party (1929); Clara Bow Rarities

The Wild Party (1929)
February 8, 2013 - 7:30 pm
Billy Wilder Theater
Part of: 
Call Her Savage: Clara Bow Hits the Screen
Preservation funded by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation

The Wild Party (1929)

Directed by Dorothy Arzner

Paramount's first sound feature, The Wild Party was conceived as a vehicle for silent superstar Clara Bow. A light-hearted comedy set at an exclusive women's college, the film features Bow as the most popular party girl in a dorm full of high-spirited flapper coeds. Critically acclaimed and a box office success, The Wild Party also helped establish director Dorothy Arzner in the sound era.

Paramount Famous Lasky Corp. Screenwriter: Warner Fabian. Cinematographer: Victor Milner. Editor: Otto Lovering. Cast: Clara Bow, Fredric March, Marceline Day, Shirley O'Hara, Adrienne Doré. 

35mm, b/w, 77 min.

Preceded by

Clara Bow Rarities

UCLA Film & Television Archive holds a trove of unique fragmentary material on Clara Bow. This special presentation includes trailers from lost feature films, newsreels, recently discovered Technicolor outtakes, and Bow singing "True to the Navy" in the 1930 all-star revue Paramount on Parade. Don’t miss it!

Various formats, b/w and color, TRT: 30 min.