Alita Allen is about to be married to her fiancé, John Campbell. However, Alita's mother--who has been unhappily married for 25 years--puts her foot down and tells her husband that there's a new arrangement: she will have breakfast with him twice a week, but other than that both will have complete freedom from each other.


The Architectural Subversion of the Domestic Sphere The cinematic landscape of 1924 was a crucible of shifting social paradigms, and Daring Youth emerges as a remarkably prescient artifact of that era's burgeoning skepticism toward institutionalized matrimony. While contemporaries like Nothing But Nerve leaned heavi...


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" The Architectural Subversion of the Domestic Sphere The cinematic landscape of 1924 was a crucible of shifting social paradigms, and Daring Youth emerges as a remarkably prescient artifact of that era's burgeoning skepticism toward institutionalized matrimony. While contemporaries like Nothing But Nerve leaned heavily into the slapstick kinetics of the period, this Dorothy Farnum-penned script navigates the treacherous waters of psychological warfare within the American parlor. The film does ..."
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Dorothy Farnum, Alexander Neal, William Shakespeare
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