
When, on a prank, shimmy dancer Marcia Meadows visits bookworm Horace Tarbox in his Yale dormitory, Horace falls madly in love and follows her to New York, where they marry. Denounced by his wealthy father, Horace attempts to support Marcia through his writing, but all his manuscripts are rejected, and he is fired from every job.


The first time Marcia Meadows’s shimmy detonates across Horace Tarbox’s orderly world, the screen itself seems to hiccup—an iris-in that contracts on Edward Jobson’s startled pupils, then blooms outward like absinthe poured on parchment. What follows is less a love story than a collision of dialects: the Ivy League’...

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William C. Dowlan

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" The first time Marcia Meadows’s shimmy detonates across Horace Tarbox’s orderly world, the screen itself seems to hiccup—an iris-in that contracts on Edward Jobson’s startled pupils, then blooms outward like absinthe poured on parchment. What follows is less a love story than a collision of dialects: the Ivy League’s marble-mouthed Latinate caution versus the Bowery’s nickel-plated vernacular, all scored to a ceaseless foxtrot cymbal. Director William C. deMille—armed with a scenario copped f..."
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, Percy Heath
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