Slideshow
HOOPLA
Monday, December 30
6:30
Introduced by David Stenn, author of Clara Bow: Runnin' Wild, with book signing in lobby following the screening.
U.S., 1933
Directed by Frank Lloyd
With Clara Bow, Preston Foster, Richard Cromwell
Approx. 85 min. Restored 35mm.
Carny barker Preston Foster warns farm boy son Richard Cromwell about cooch dancer Clara Bow (good tip!) — she’s already taking a $100 bet she can make him fall in love with her. In her wildly underrated swan song, Bow sports the “scantiest raiment she ever wore on the screen.” – Film Daily
Restored 35mm print courtesy MoMA.
Presented with support from the Ada Katz Fund for Literature in Film and the Robert Jolin Osborne Endowed Fund for American Classic Cinema of the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s