Spring Fever | 1927 | Romantic comedy

Title: Spring Fever | 1927 | Romantic comedy Director: Edward Sedgwick Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Starring: William Haines, Joan Crawford, George K. Arthur, George Fawcett Based on: Spring Fever by Vincent Lawrence Release Date: October 22, 1927 Runtime: 60 minutes Format: Silent, black-and-white, 1.33:1, 7 reels Country: United States Language: Silent Genres: Romantic comedy --- Chapters: 00:00:00 Opening credits and shipping clerk 00:12:00 Country club invitation 00:25:00 Courtship and rivalry 00:40:00 Engagement complications 00:52:00 Tournament and resolution --- Summary: A golf-obsessed shipping clerk, Jack Kelly, is invited to tutor his boss at an exclusive country club, where he falls for heiress Allie Monte. Jack’s bluffing about wealth, a jealous club champion, and shifting fortunes put their romance in jeopardy until a high-stakes tournament offers a path to reconciliation. Themes include class aspiration, sporting prowess as social leverage, and the tension between image and sincerity. --- Background: Produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Spring Fever adapts Vincent Lawrence’s 1925 Broadway play and marked the first onscreen romantic teaming of William Haines and Joan Crawford. Portions were filmed at Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, California. The film was later restored by Turner Entertainment in 2008 and aired on Turner Classic Movies, and the property was remade as the 1930 MGM musical Love in the Rough. --- Trivia: Location shooting at Riviera Country Club grounds the film’s golf sequences in a real Los Angeles-area course. Intertitles were written by Ralph Spence, and settings were credited to Cedric Gibbons and David Townsend. The picture was the first romantic pairing of MGM stars William Haines and Joan Crawford on screen. Spring Fever was remade as Love in the Rough , shifting the silent romantic comedy into an early musical format. --- Public Domain / Rights: Original Release: October 22, 1927 Original Studio / Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Copyright Status: Public Domain Renewal: Unknown --- Hashtags: SpringFever 1927 WilliamHaines JoanCrawford EdwardSedgwick MGM SilentFilm RomanticComedy PublicDomain Source page: https: //commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Spring_Fever_(1927).webm Direct media URL: https: //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/Spring_Fever_%281927%29.webm