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Acteurist oeuvre-view Clara Bow Part 4: MY LADY OF WHIMS (1925) & THE PLASTIC AGE (1925)

Published: Feb. 19, 2021, 5:27 a.m.

This week, we get closer to Clara Bow's Mature Period with her first big hit, the college movie\xa0The Plastic Age\xa0(1925). But first, another 1925 pairing with the stalwart Donald Keith.\xa0My Lady of Whims. The two films show the flexibility of the flapper archetype, with Clara as a socialite-turned-bohemian in the first and as a hard-partying college girl in the second. Frustratingly, Keith is our protagonist, but the two films give Bow a chance to show off her comedic and dramatic skills, respectively, and pave the way for more complex versions of similar plots in future vehicles.\xa0\xa0

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0h 01m 00s: \xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 \xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 My Lady of Whims (1925) [dir: Dallas M. Fitzgerald]

0h 28m 41s:\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 The Plastic Age (1925) [dir. Wesley Ruggles]

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