The Campus Flirt (a.k.a. The College Flirt) is a lostThe Campus Flirt at Arne Andersen's Lost Film Files: Paramount Pictures - 1926 Retrieved November 18, 2022. 1926 American silent comedy film produced by Famous Players–Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It was directed by Clarence Badger and starred Bebe Daniels. Comedian El Brendel makes his film debut here.The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30 by The American Film Institute, c. 1971.The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: The Campus Flirt AFI Catalog of Feature Films Retrieved November 18, 2022.
Plot Patricia, spoiled by her mother, is sent by her father to his alma mater to get her head straight. At college, given scant consideration by her favored sorority, she falls in with the “fast set” and gets mixed up in a kidnapping. One afternoon, while ridiculing the girl’s track team, a white rat climbs her leg. Panicked, she sprints past the entire team, revealing her unknown talent. A handsome undergraduate talks her into going out for the team. She gives up partying and drinking. Olympic sprint champ Charley Paddock, under his own name, becomes her coach. During the big meet, spies from the rival school kidnap her. She escapes in time to join the relay and anchor the team to victory—while winning her ungrad beau.Epes W. Sargent, “The Campus Flirt”, The Moving Picture World, October 2, 1926.“The Campus Flirt”, Cinema Art, November 1926.
Cast Bebe Daniels as Patricia Mansfield James Hall as Denis Adams El Brendel as Knute Knudson Charley Paddock as himself Joan Standing as Harriet Porter Gilbert Roland as Graham Stearns Irma Komelia as Mae Jocelyn Lee as Gwen
Notes Exteriors were shot on the University of California, Berkeley campus,"Paddock, Now Actor, Due Here", San Francisco Call Bulletin, June 15, 1926. writer Lloyd Corrigan's alma mater.
Daniels and Paddock became engaged after a whirlwind romance, as widely reported during the movie’s rollout. In June 1927, they announced the end of the engagement and the desire to remain “just friends.”United Press, “Engagement Broken By Bebe Daniels”, June 13, 1927.
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