''College Days'' is a 1926 American
silent romantic comedy
Romantic comedy (also known as romcom or rom-com) is a subgenre of comedy and slice of life fiction, focusing on lighthearted, humorous plot lines centered on romantic ideas, such as how true love is able to surmount most obstacles. In a typica ...
film directed by
Richard Thorpe and starring
Marceline Day,
Charles Delaney
Charles Delaney (August 9, 1892 – August 31, 1959) was an American actor.
Biography
Delaney was born in New York City in 1892. He was originally a motor mechanic and having learned to fly during World War I, he started doing flying vaud ...
, and
James Harrison. It was produced by the
independent
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Tiffany Pictures
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.
[Umphlett p. 173] The film's sets were designed by the
art director Edwin B. Willis.
Synopsis
On his first day at the
University of California
The University of California (UC) is a public land-grant research university system in the U.S. state of California. The system is composed of the campuses at Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, San Franci ...
, Jim Gordon meets and falls in love with Mary Ward but also makes an enemy in Kenneth Slade. Mary's feelings are hurt when she sees Jim with another woman, and his attempts to make amends almost get him expelled. At the last moment he is called back to take part in a
football game, winning both it and the heart of Mary.
Cast
References
Bibliography
* Connelly, Robert B. ''The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2''. December Press, 1998.
* Munden, Kenneth White. ''The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1''. University of California Press, 1997.
* Oriard, Michael. ''King Football: Sport and Spectacle in the Golden Age of Radio and Newsreels, Movies and Magazines, the Weekly and the Daily Press''. University of North Carolina Press, 2005.
* Umphlett, Wiley Lee . ''The Movies Go to College: Hollywood and the World of the College-Life Film''. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1984.
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1926 films
1926 comedy films
1920s English-language films
American silent feature films
Silent American comedy films
American black-and-white films
Tiffany Pictures films
Films directed by Richard Thorpe
Films set in universities and colleges
1920s American films
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