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The Plastic Age
(1925) United States of America
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], Felix Valle [Merton Billings], J. Gordon Edwards Jr. [Norrie Parks], Clark Gable [a student in the locker room]
B.P. Schulberg Productions, Incorporated, 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 or 15 December? 1925. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The production was announced with direction by Clarence Brown from a scenario by Will M. Ritchie and Melville Brown; Marcel De Sano and Louis J. Gasnier were also announced as directors. University exteriors were taken at Pomona College. The novel was subsequently filmed as Red Lips (1928).
Comedy-Drama.
Survival status: Prints exist in the UCLA Film and Television Archive film archive [16mm reduction positive, 35mm preservation positive].
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Flappers - Sports: Football
Listing updated: 11 August 2023.
References: Film credits, film viewing : FilmYearBook-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 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.
Home video: DVD.
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