Call Her Savage (1932) on Netflix
Nasa Springer, a wild young woman from a well-to-do Texas family, rebels against her father. Sent to school in Chicago, she weds a rich playboy who calls the marriage a ploy.
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Nasa Springer grows up in Texas in a well-to-do family, wild and rebellious toward her father. She is sent to school in Chicago, and her behavior there marks her as a troublemaker. She weds a rich playboy, who then calls the marriage a ploy and abandons her. Her father renounces her and tells her he never wants to see her again.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Call Her Savage (1932)
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- A scene of Clara Bow out on the town in New York is widely considered the first depiction of a gay bar in a pre-Code American film. The next major American film widely noted for showing a gay bar came thirty years later, with Otto Preminger's Advise & Consent in 1962.
- Bow tested Joel McCrea as a favor to her husband Rex Bell but instead chose Gilbert Roland as her leading man in Call Her Savage; director John Francis Dillon was hired with her approval.
- Bow's contract for her return to Fox required her to reduce her weight to 118 pounds and keep it there; the studio provided a masseuse she selected and a "voice culture specialist" to help with her dialogue.
- After the first draft stripped "most of the real flavor" out of the story, Rork, Al Rockett and Edwin Burker reworked it and added more racier content back into the screenplay; Hays committee head Jason Joy had called the source novel "about as far wrong as it is possible to be".
- Most censor boards cut Call Her Savage anyway at various places they deemed offensive, and British censors refused to pass the film without stating a reason.
