It is a silent romantic comedy directed by Clarence G. Badger and starring Clara Bow as Betty Lou Spence, the role that would forever immortalise her as ‘The It Girl’.
Archives for April 2019
4th Golden Boy Blogathon: A William Holden Celebration
Directed by Rouben Mamoulian, Golden Boy is a romantic melodrama set in the cutthroat world of boxing, starring Adolphe Menjou as manager Tom Moody, Barbara Stanwyck as his girlfriend Lorna, and William Holden as talented young violinist Joe Bonaparte, who decides to become a boxer.
This post is part of the 4th Golden Boy Blogathon: A William Holden Celebration, hosted by The Wonderful World of Cinema, The Flapper Dame, and Love Letters to Old Hollywood.
The Fourth Annual Bette Davis Blogathon: Jezebel (1938)
Directed by William Wyler, Jezebel is a melodrama centred around a young woman from New Orleans in 1852 named Julie Marsden, played by Bette Davis, and her brazen and headstrong behaviour which loses her the affections of the man she loves, Preston Dillard, played by Henry Fonda.
This post is part of the Fourth Annual Bette Davis Blogathon hosted by In The Good Old Days Of Classic Hollywood.
