Slideshow
DANCING MOTHERS
Monday, December 23
6:00
♪ With live piano accompaniment by Steve Sterner
Introduced by David Stenn, author of Clara Bow: Runnin' Wild, available for sale at our concession.
U.S., 1926
Directed by Herbert Brenon
With Clara Bow, Alice Joyce, Conway Tearle
Approx. 65 min. Restored DCP.
Dancing daughter Clara (as “Kittens Westcourt”) steals the show as mom Alice Joyce, stuck with a cheating husband, tries to break up Bow’s romance with Conway Tearle, only to find… Jazz Age soap with a biting feminist twist.
Restored DCP courtesy San Francisco Silent Film Festival.
with RED HAIR Fragments
U.S., 1928
Directed by Clarence G. Badger
With Clara Bow
Approx. 35mm.
Gold digger "Bubbles" McCoy, a manicurist, finds that Robert Lennon, the man she has chosen to marry, is under the guardianship of three bachelor friends, all of whom have courted her and given her many expensive gifts. Against the guardians' advice, Lennon announces the engagement. At the engagement party, "Bubbles", angry and irritated because of criticism against her, removes all the sartorial gifts she wears, leaps half nude into the swimming pool, and is pulled out by her sympathetic, forgiving fiancé.
35mm preservation print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive.
Reviews
“The best picture in which Miss Bow has been featured.”
– The New York Times