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THE PLASTIC AGE

Monday, December 9
6:30

♪ 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., 1925
Directed by Wesley Ruggles
With Clara Bow, Donald Keith, Gilbert Roland, Clark Gable
Approx. 73 min. 35mm. 


“Hotsy-totsy,” man-hungry coed Clara and those darn jazz parties look to derail the campus career of ace track/football star Donald Keith, but there may be a noble renunciation and big gridiron climax in store, as ex-fling Gilbert Roland (a Bow beau in real life, too) sticks in his oar as well. A box-office breakthrough for B.P. Schulberg’s Preferred Pictures.

35mm preservation print courtesy of the Packard Humanities Institute Collection at the UCLA Film & Television Archive.

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