Hoopla (1933)

HOOPLA  (1933)  ¢ ¢ 1/2
    D: Frank Lloyd
    Clara Bow, Preston Foster, Richard Cromwell,
    Minna Gombel, Herbert Mindin, Roger Imhof
In her last movie, Clara Bow plays "Fatima, the Queen of the Sultan's Harem," whose provocative dance on the midway causes a riot at the carnival. She also falls hard for her boss's son, a good-natured kid she's getting paid to seduce. As melodrama, this is nothing special, but the costuming is pre-Code, and the fade-out leaves Clara just the way she'd want to be remembered: happy, vivacious and in total command of the screen. The rest of her life wasn't nearly that much fun.