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The Campus Vamp (1927)

1927 · Silent film · 21 min

  • Comedy

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Running time
21 minutes
Language
English

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★★★★★ · Carole Lombard in a poignant early comedy... No short Technicolor beginning with this one. · Den NC USA · 2025-08-05

At 2:20 min. in, Carole is seen driving onto campus with a classic "Roaring Twenties" carload filled with reveling college students...while an ongoing scene with a couple has the 'girl in glasses quipping, "There's Carole with her army-she'd make a great recruiting officer," That was 1928... when she was doing some comedies for Mack Sennatt. Carole becomes a star. Rich, beautiful, successful. Marries Clarke Gable... Then in 1942, on a War Bond "recruitment" plane flight, she "...tragically died in a plane crash while serving her country during WWII." What are the chances? This is a charming…