Mantrap (1925) by Victor Fleming
Sunday, February 26, 1989, 8:00 pm
THE BAWDY COMEDY OF CLARA BOW
Clara Bow’s life and Hollywood career epitomized the Roaring Twenties’ obsession with glamour and decadence. Bow became the most adored starlet of the decade whose outrageous behavior provoked unmatched levels of nasty gossip. Tonight’s program presents one silent and one sound feature. In Mantrap (1925), Bow plays a reformed Big-City Flapper trying to make a go of it in the Canadian wilderness; Call Her Savage (1932) is a comically perverse satire, filled with enough absurd melodrama and varieties of sexual innuendo to assure the film’s condemnation.