The Campus Vamp
About The Campus Vamp
At Beverly College, Sally watches Matty flirt with Carole while Barney Benson and his girlfriend Dora clean rooms to stay in school. They try to coach Sally. At the dance Carole does the Charleston for Matty. Dora hands Barney a lump of ice; it melts and leaves him looking as if he has wet his trousers, and Matty sits in the wet spot. The students then play baseball on the beach, Barney umpires, and Sally's play wins the game. She kisses Matty. Dora and Barney pair off.
Cast & crew
More about The Campus Vamp
Harry Edwards directed the two-reeler for Mack Sennett. Ewart Adamson, Carl Harbaugh, Jefferson Moffitt, and Earle Rodney are among the writers. Pathé Exchange distributed it. It was released on 23 September 1928. William Hornbeck edited.
Themes
Making
Sennett was inserting two-color Technicolor passages into otherwise black-and-white shorts. Here the color is saved for the beach, not the campus dance.
Look
Fred Dawson photographed it, including the two-color Technicolor beach baseball game.
Technique
The beach sequence uses early two-color Technicolor inside a black-and-white Sennett short.
Preservation
An abridged print containing the Technicolor beach scene survives. A Lombard clip from the short appears in Maxie (1985).
Notes
- Carole Lombard plays Carole, the college vamp. Daphne Pollard plays Dora, Sally Eilers plays Sally, Matty Kemp plays Matty, and Johnny Burke plays Barney Benson.
- Alice Ward plays the dean.
- The picture opens on bathing beauties, and the beach baseball game is in early two-color Technicolor. The rest is black and white.
- A clip of Lombard from the short is used in Maxie (1985).
- An abridged print that still contains the color scene has been preserved.
Scenes
- Barney holds a lump of ice until his trousers look soaked, and Matty sits on the wet patch.
- In the color sequence, Sally helps win the beach baseball game and kisses Matty.
Also available
- Internet Archive (BillSpragueCollection-CampusVampANAbridgedPrintButThisPrintContainsTheColorScene)
