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The Plastic Age
(1925) American
B&W : Seven reels / 6488 feet
Directed by Wesley Ruggles

Cast: Clara Bow [Cynthia Day], Donald Keith [Hugh Carver], Mary Alden [Mrs. Carver], Henry B. Walthall [Henry Carver], Gilbert Roland [Carl Peters], David Butler [James Henley]

[?] B.P. Schulberg Productions? production; distributed by [?] Paramount Pictures Corporation? / Scenario by Eve Unsell and Frederica Sagor, from the adaptation by Wesley Ruggles and Eve Unsell of the novel The Plastic Age by Percy Marks. Cinematography by Al Siegler and Gilbert Warrenton. Presented by B.P. Schulberg. / Released 4 October 1925. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / University exteriors were taken at Pomona College.

Drama.

Survival status: Prints exist in the UCLA Film and Television Archive film archive [16mm reduction positive, 35mm preservation positive].

Current rights holder: (unknown)

Keywords: Flappers - Sports: Football

Listing updated: 10 March 2007.

References: Film credits, film viewing : FilmDaily-1926 p. 51; Higashi-Virgins p. 126; Maas-Shocking pp. 45-47, 51-55, 58, 81, 83-84, 107, 111, 146, 148, 206; Weaver-Twenty p. 56.

Home video: DVD.