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The Wild Party, the 1929 Dorothy Arzner Roaring Twenties flapper girl romantic college comedy ("A Paramount All-Talking Picture"; "The life of the party and How!"; "Everybody's invited ... Big Doings! ...Much Whoopee! at Clara Bow's Wild Party"; "You don't know the half of It until you hear Clara Bow Talk!"; a wacky story of a wild female student at an all-girls college, and she falls in love with her young professor, but when he rejects her, she goes to a "wild party", and that results in her being expelled and him being fired, but they find their love for each other) starring Clara Bow, Fredric March (in his second real movie role!), Marceline Day, Shirley O'Hara, Adrienne Dore, Joyce Compton, Phillips Holmes, and Jack Oakie. Note that Phillips Holmes had made an impression in some movies in the late 1920s. In 1931, he would get the lead in the first version of "An American Tragedy", which made it seem like he would become a major star, but that didn't materialize. He had a major affair with Libby Holman, but that was certainly complicated, and when they broke up, she immediately married his brother! Oddly, years later, Holman would have another very complicated affair with Montgomery Clift, who played the same part in the remake of "An American Tragedy", retitled "A Place in the Sun". Sadly, Holmes died in a plane crash in 1942. I am very surprised no one has made a movie about his life, or a joint movie about him and Libby Holman! Like most of director Arzner's movies, this one dealt with a very independent woman who "goes her own way" in life! Also note that Dorothy Arzner was a director from the 1920s to the 1940s, and she was the only woman director during the "Golden Age" of Hollywood ('20s to '40s) and she was the first woman to join the Directors Guild of America. Arzner was a lesbian at a time when almost no females openly were, and she was surprisingly open about it, often dressing in "men's clothes" and wearing her hair short. She made many "women's movies" and movies with a "feminist" theme. After making "First Comes Courage" in 1943, she made training films for the U.S. Army WACs, and she never returned to making Hollywood movies, becoming a film teacher of directing and screenwriting, teaching at UCLA until her passing in 1979.
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Artist: William J. Hanneman

Important Added Info: Note that lobby cards from this movie are extremely rare! We have previously auctioned three lobby cards in all our years of auctioning, but only one in the last 17 years, and we have NEVER previously auctioned this wonderful artwork portrait card. Note that at this time Paramount rarely made any title cards at all, but a very few of their sets have one, and this seems to surely be one of those, because the other cards we have auctioned are all "regular" scene cards, with images from the movie, so we can't see how this could be anything but a very rare Paramount title card! Also note that we have a scan of both the front and the back of this lobby card, which should greatly help you see what defects it has.

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