"All roads lead to roam"!!!! So says the first title of this hectic flapper movie.
The film starts off with a mad automobile race and the pace is kept up throughout the film. It is not as good as "Our Dancing Daughters" but it is still a slice of riotous jazz age fun. Were the 20s really that exuberant - who knows???? The film studios wanted you to think they were!!
Billie Brown (Joan Crawford) and Gil (Douglas Fairbanks Jnr.) become engaged but keep their engagement a secret until Gil's appointment at the Paris embassy comes through.
Kentucky (Anita Page), Billie's best friend also loves Gil, but from afar. Meanwhile Billie starts to romance Glenn Abbott (the very dashing Rod La Roque) in the hope that she may be able to influence him to help Gil.
On the night of Billies' big party Billie decides to stay with Glenn, leaving Kentucky and Gil alone on the lake. When Glenn, who is now in love with Billie finds out about the "secret engagement" - he goes to her and tells her he wants nothing more to do with her. On her wedding day Billie learns that Kentucky is having Gil's baby (he doesn't know of course). She leaves them to it and honeymoons on her own - "I'll start a new modern trend". Of course Glenn tracks her down in Paris and they embrace at the fade out.
The art deco sets are stunning and the stylish Adrian gowns are gorgeous. The "theme" song throughout the film is "Should I" from "Lord Byron of Broadway". It was a huge song hit in 1929. "My Sin" was probably Kentucky's theme song. Other popular songs in the film were "If I Had You" and "My Kind of Love".
Again another top performance by Anita Page. It isn't a big part but she makes the most of it with tons of emotion. I have read that she felt her career was sabotaged because she would not succumb to L.B. Mayer's advances. There seems to be some truth in that judging by the strength of her performances. Dorothy Sebastian was replaced by Josephine Dunn as "Ginger". She is the bad girl and her part isn't big. Eddie Nugent again plays one of Billie's pals.
The film starts off with a mad automobile race and the pace is kept up throughout the film. It is not as good as "Our Dancing Daughters" but it is still a slice of riotous jazz age fun. Were the 20s really that exuberant - who knows???? The film studios wanted you to think they were!!
Billie Brown (Joan Crawford) and Gil (Douglas Fairbanks Jnr.) become engaged but keep their engagement a secret until Gil's appointment at the Paris embassy comes through.
Kentucky (Anita Page), Billie's best friend also loves Gil, but from afar. Meanwhile Billie starts to romance Glenn Abbott (the very dashing Rod La Roque) in the hope that she may be able to influence him to help Gil.
On the night of Billies' big party Billie decides to stay with Glenn, leaving Kentucky and Gil alone on the lake. When Glenn, who is now in love with Billie finds out about the "secret engagement" - he goes to her and tells her he wants nothing more to do with her. On her wedding day Billie learns that Kentucky is having Gil's baby (he doesn't know of course). She leaves them to it and honeymoons on her own - "I'll start a new modern trend". Of course Glenn tracks her down in Paris and they embrace at the fade out.
The art deco sets are stunning and the stylish Adrian gowns are gorgeous. The "theme" song throughout the film is "Should I" from "Lord Byron of Broadway". It was a huge song hit in 1929. "My Sin" was probably Kentucky's theme song. Other popular songs in the film were "If I Had You" and "My Kind of Love".
Again another top performance by Anita Page. It isn't a big part but she makes the most of it with tons of emotion. I have read that she felt her career was sabotaged because she would not succumb to L.B. Mayer's advances. There seems to be some truth in that judging by the strength of her performances. Dorothy Sebastian was replaced by Josephine Dunn as "Ginger". She is the bad girl and her part isn't big. Eddie Nugent again plays one of Billie's pals.