Floss Brannon, expelled from college for mischievous conduct, marries Chester Framm, a struggling young student who aspires to be an orator. When Chester's salary as an insurance clerk proves insufficient for the couple's needs, Claire invents a complexion cream called "Angel Bloom.
Picture 1923: bobbed hair clings to napes like damp petals, saxophones bleed through the speakeasy walls, and ambition arrives in zinc tubes. Wallace Irwin’s screenplay uncorks a fable equal parts mascara and moral panic, letting Madge Kennedy’s Floss pirouette across the screen with the reckless grace of a lit firecr...
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" Picture 1923: bobbed hair clings to napes like damp petals, saxophones bleed through the speakeasy walls, and ambition arrives in zinc tubes. Wallace Irwin’s screenplay uncorks a fable equal parts mascara and moral panic, letting Madge Kennedy’s Floss pirouette across the screen with the reckless grace of a lit firecracker. Director William A. Seiter shoots the opening dismissal from college like a fashion-plate gag: mortarboards airborne, professors’ beards quivering in horror at Floss’s late..."
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