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Nere-do-well Jerry Corbett finally meets and marries the right girl, Joan Prentiss. Unfortunately their wedded bliss is interrupted when Jerry’s play becomes a hit and he hooks up with the wrong woman from his past. Joan decides that turn-about is fair play and she picks another man to escort her around to various parties around New York. Eventually Jerry quits drinking and sends his girlfriend packing, just in time for Joan to take him back.

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Dorothy Arzner’s “The Wild Party” was a Clara Bow star vehicle and Paramount’s very first talking movie. Set in an all-girls’ school, the film has a routine, all-too familiar scenario, but it was fun to watch because of its leading lady.

Clara Bows plays Stella, a headstrong college girl who forms a society called the “hardboiled maidens,” that’s regarded with considerable distrust by the college authorities. The club’s activities include arranging all-night parties and raiding nearby men’s colleges and speak-easies. Bow, at her most sexual, gives the impression that going to college was a lark. Her flirtatious relationship with her older professor (played by Fredric March) is the kind of stuff teenagers dream of.

The Playbill of Paramount Publix advertised the film as: “The ‘It’ girl’s all-talking sensation. She listens like she looks in this all-dialogue hit. You’ve had an eyeful of ‘It’—now get an earful!”

The film opened at the Rialto Theater in New York on March 30, 1929

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Two sisters have arrived in New York straight from the country and settle down in one of those boarding houses for single women. May, the older, is a bit naive, while June, the younger, is much more worldly and world-wise. The next day, they go out looking for jobs and June makes sure her older sister gets one, while she snags herself a job and a saxophone playing beau named Pat Kelly. May also finds a beau, Boyd Wheeler, a young lawyer with a degree from Harvard. While June enjoys herself and the presents she gets from Kelly, May falls more and more in love with Boyd and rejects a proposal from her boss, archaeologist Dr. von Schrader, who then fires her. Without a job, May is free to spend even more time with Boyd, despite her sister’s warnings. She is heartbroken when she learns that Boyd has gotten engaged to a society girl. June does her best to comfort her sister and decides to ask Dr. von Schrader to hire May again.

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New York Times Review

In their enthusiasm for the idea of electric fans carrying voices across hotel courtyards, those concerned with the producing of “Anybody’s Woman,” the talking picture now at both the Times Square Paramount and the Brooklyn Paramount, favor coincidences that are absurdly unconvincing. This more or less ingenious notion can be accepted in an early episode, but when it crops up again in the climactic sequence the result is emphatically disappointing.

This film, which is based on a story by Gouverneur Morris, has, however, in its cast those intelligent players, Clive Brook and Ruth Chatterton, and therefore all is not lost. Paul Lukas also gives a clever performance.

In her direction Dorothy Arzner reveals no little care, but there are many moments when the incidents lack imagination. It becomes a case of preaching during many of the scenes, when they might have been tinctured with a suggestion or two from Sir James M. Barrie’s play, “What Every Woman Knows.” The story is invariably amateurish in its writing and its development. And even Miss Chatterton, who enjoys the opportunity of costuming herself in several attractive creations, is inconsistent in her speech. At times her voice is intentionally hard and her choice of words suited to the rôle, but on other occasions she adopts a cultured tone and suddenly acquires an enviable vocabulary.

Miss Chatterton plays a chorus girl named Pansy Gray, whose outlook on life is dismal. Apparently the only man she has ever respected was a lawyer who had defended her when she was apprehended for appearing on the stage in an inextensive costume.

The picture opens with a glimpse of Clive Brook as Neil Dunlap in a thoroughly intoxicated condition. His memory leaves him on such occasions. It is while he is mumbling in an uncertain fashion to Gustav Saxon (Mr. Lukas), a self-made man of wealth, about the wives he has divorced, that he is impelled to listen to Pansy’s discourse which he is supposed to hear distinctly only when an electric fan is turned in the right direction.

In his drunken state Dunlap is so much impressed by what Pansy says to her feminine friend that he and Saxon invite her to come to their room. Dunlap believes that a woman like Pansy would do more for a man than any of the wives he has had. So he asks Pansy to marry him, and following a brief hesitation she accepts. Dunlap is, as might be presumed, the lawyer who defended Pansy.

When Dunlap appears next morning he does not remember anything that happened while he was inebriated. Pansy tells him that she is his wife and eventually Dunlap is convinced. Later in his home town he invites a number of friends and their wives to dinner to meet Pansy. The men appear, but their wives excuse their absence on the grounds of indisposition.

There is a silly incident at the dinner, and Pansy, who has been doing all she can to keep Dunlap from drinking, takes too much to drink herself. Various contretemps occur and finally Pansy leaves Dunlap. He finds life miserable without her, and finally the electric fan is brought into action again and Dunlap hears his wife’s voice while she is having dinner on a terrace with Saxon.

Mr. Brooks’s acting is splendid. Huntly Gordon, Virginia Hammond and Juliette Compton handle their rôles with pleasing restraint.

The stage contribution is “Garden of Girls.” It was directed by Boris Petroff.

ANYBODY’S WOMAN, with Ruth Chatterton, Clive Brook, Paul Lukas, Huntly Gordon, Virginia Hammond, Tom Patricola, Juliette Compton, Cecil Cunningham, Charles Gerrard, Harvey Clark, Sidney Bracey and Gertrude Sutton, based on a story by Gouverneur Morris, directed by Dorothy Arzner; “Garden of Girls,” a Boris Petroff stage revue. At the Paramount.

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Synopsis:
Juan is the son of a poor widow in Seville. Against his mother’s wishes he pursues a career as toreador. He rapidly gains national prominence, and takes his childhood sweetheart Carmen as his bride. He meets the Marquis’ daughter Dona Sol, and finds himself in the awkward position of being in love with two women, which threatens the stability of his family and his position in society. He finds interesting parallels in the life of the infamous bandit Plumitas when they eventually meet by chance.

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