In Her Wild Oat, the
delightful and bright-eyed Colleen Moore makes a living by operating
a lunch wagon for neighborhood blue-collar workers, then pulling it
all the way home (she can't afford a horse). Fate has her cross
paths with a scandal-mongering tabloid journalist, a seen-it-all
gold digger nicknamed Iowa Girl, and a Wall Street broker who gets
mugged and abandoned in his underwear. As she pursues the latter to
a resort hotel, her underclass grit comes up against upperclass
snobbery as Moore finds herself masquerading as a high society
aviatrix called the Duchess de Granville, a made-up name that
hilariously turns out to belong to her hearthrob's stepmother.
You won't want to miss this fantastic
1927 comedy which was recently rediscovered and restored by the
Academy Film Archive. Theatre organist extraordinaire, Robert D.
Salisbury will join us again this year to bring the film to life
with his original and masterful score.
