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* NobleSacrifice: Billie figures out that not only does Kentucky love Gil, Gil has knocked Kentucky up. So to spare her friend Kentucky humiliation, Billie tells her father that she's the one who had sex with another man. Thus it's Billie who's dragged through the tabloid mud.
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[[caption-width-right:350:"Modern" is 1929 code for "willing to put out"]]
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''Our Modern Maidens'' is a 1929 film directed by Jack Conway.
Billie Brown (Creator/JoanCrawford) is a filthy rich young socialite who has just graduated from college. She is engaged to be married to one of her classmates, Gil Jordan (Creator/DouglasFairbanksJr). Gil is all set up to join the diplomatic service of the State Department, and Billie is determined that he'll get a posting in Paris. On the train back home from school, Billie meets Glenn Abbott, a senior, well-connected diplomat. Billie starts flirting with Glenn, with the hopes of buttering him up so that she can get that plum post for Gil, but she starts to develop feelings for Glenn. Meanwhile, with Billie paying attention to Glenn, Gil starts finding himself more and more in the company of Kentucky Stafford (Anita Page), Billie's gorgeous friend, who happens to be in love with Gil.
The second in a loose trilogy of films about young flappers, all starring Crawford and Page, following ''Film/OurDancingDaughters'' and followed by ''Film/OurBlushingBrides''.
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!!Tropes:
* ActorAllusion: At a party, Gil entertains the other guests with some celebrity impressions. After doing impressions of Creator/JohnBarrymore and Creator/JohnGilbert, someone calls out "Robin Hood!". Gil proceeds to do a scarily accurate impression of...Douglas Fairbanks Jr.'s father Creator/DouglasFairbanks in ''Film/{{Robin Hood|1922}}'', including the [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-r5AnDqYz1ks/UBrAwZo5e6I/AAAAAAAAAiQ/KWzVguZLWSs/s1600/robin-hood-douglas-fairbanks.jpg famous pose]] of Douglas Senior brandishing a mug of beer.
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: Billie's father, an industrial magnate, glories in the name of "B. Bickering Brown".
-->'''Gil''': What a colorful name!
* DramaticIrony: Billie comforts a weepy Kentucky by saying "You'll be so happy...when you meet the man you love." Of course Kentucky ''has'' met the man she loves, namely Gil, whom Billie is marrying that day. And Billie has also met her real true love, Glenn.
* TheFlapper: All three films in this trilogy were basically odes to TheFlapper. Billie is a fun-loving, vivacious debutante, who likes to dance and wears her hair in a short bob and plays dice for fun--the archetypal flapper. At a dance, she jumps in with the band and starts playing drums.
* LingerieScene: The scene where Billie comforts a hysterical Kentucky happens just as Kentucky is changing into her bridesmaid dress, and is obviously just an excuse to film Anita Page wearing only a slip.
* LohengrinAndMendelssohn: This film was made at the tail end of the silent era when studios were often sticking bits of dialogue into mostly silent films. Among the "talkie" bits added to this film is the sound of a choir singing "Here Comes the Bride" as Billie descends the staircase for her wedding.
* LoveDodecahedron: Billie and Gil each have other admirers, namely Glenn and Kentucky respectively. They wind up switching partners.
* MeaningfulName: You couldn't hear accents in silent movies, so naming a character "Kentucky Stafford" lets the audience know that she's an innocent CountryMouse.
* NobleSacrifice: Billie figures out that not only does Kentucky love Gil, Gil has knocked Kentucky up. So to spare her friend Kentucky humiliation, Billie tells her father that she's the one who had sex with another man. Thus it's Billie who's dragged through the tabloid mud.
* OldFashionedRowboatDate: The lavish party Billie's father is throwing includes a little fleet of gondolas on the lake, with gondoliers to row the guests around. With Billie off paying attention to Glenn, Gil and Kentucky wind up snuggled up to each other in a gondola while they're rowed around the lake.
* OneNightStandPregnancy: Kentucky gets knocked up by that single encounter that she had with Gil after the party.
* SexyDiscretionShot: Gil and Kentucky have a passionate embrace. Cut to the next morning and Kentucky on a couch, looking up at the ceiling with a dreamy expression meant to make the audience understand she got laid the night before.
* SexySoakedShirt: Glenn and Billie get caught in the rain, which causes Billie to be drenched by the time they finally get to Glenn's cottage, which leaves her dress plastered to her body and leaving nothing to the imagination. Glenn embraces her but Billie manages to restrain herself and push him away.
* SittingSexyOnAPiano: Not to be outdone when she sees Billie join the band and play drums, Kentucky jumps on top of a piano and starts strumming a guitar.
* ThematicSeries: Second in a series of three films in which Joan Crawford and Anita Page play flappers, after ''Film/OurDancingDaughters'' and before ''Film/OurBlushingBrides''. The films don't share a continuity but all are romances with Crawford as a young flapper looking for love and eventually finding it.
* WorstNewsJudgmentEver: No big news stories in 1929, apparently, which is why "SOCIETY SHUNS BILLIE BROWN" and "MARRIAGE VOWS ANNULLED" are huge newspaper headlines.
* ZipMeUp: Kentucky ask Gil to fasten her watch. A little bit of touch from handsome Gil clearly gets Kentucky excited.
Billie Brown (Creator/JoanCrawford) is a filthy rich young socialite who has just graduated from college. She is engaged to be married to one of her classmates, Gil Jordan (Creator/DouglasFairbanksJr). Gil is all set up to join the diplomatic service of the State Department, and Billie is determined that he'll get a posting in Paris. On the train back home from school, Billie meets Glenn Abbott, a senior, well-connected diplomat. Billie starts flirting with Glenn, with the hopes of buttering him up so that she can get that plum post for Gil, but she starts to develop feelings for Glenn. Meanwhile, with Billie paying attention to Glenn, Gil starts finding himself more and more in the company of Kentucky Stafford (Anita Page), Billie's gorgeous friend, who happens to be in love with Gil.
The second in a loose trilogy of films about young flappers, all starring Crawford and Page, following ''Film/OurDancingDaughters'' and followed by ''Film/OurBlushingBrides''.
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!!Tropes:
* ActorAllusion: At a party, Gil entertains the other guests with some celebrity impressions. After doing impressions of Creator/JohnBarrymore and Creator/JohnGilbert, someone calls out "Robin Hood!". Gil proceeds to do a scarily accurate impression of...Douglas Fairbanks Jr.'s father Creator/DouglasFairbanks in ''Film/{{Robin Hood|1922}}'', including the [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-r5AnDqYz1ks/UBrAwZo5e6I/AAAAAAAAAiQ/KWzVguZLWSs/s1600/robin-hood-douglas-fairbanks.jpg famous pose]] of Douglas Senior brandishing a mug of beer.
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: Billie's father, an industrial magnate, glories in the name of "B. Bickering Brown".
-->'''Gil''': What a colorful name!
* DramaticIrony: Billie comforts a weepy Kentucky by saying "You'll be so happy...when you meet the man you love." Of course Kentucky ''has'' met the man she loves, namely Gil, whom Billie is marrying that day. And Billie has also met her real true love, Glenn.
* TheFlapper: All three films in this trilogy were basically odes to TheFlapper. Billie is a fun-loving, vivacious debutante, who likes to dance and wears her hair in a short bob and plays dice for fun--the archetypal flapper. At a dance, she jumps in with the band and starts playing drums.
* LingerieScene: The scene where Billie comforts a hysterical Kentucky happens just as Kentucky is changing into her bridesmaid dress, and is obviously just an excuse to film Anita Page wearing only a slip.
* LohengrinAndMendelssohn: This film was made at the tail end of the silent era when studios were often sticking bits of dialogue into mostly silent films. Among the "talkie" bits added to this film is the sound of a choir singing "Here Comes the Bride" as Billie descends the staircase for her wedding.
* LoveDodecahedron: Billie and Gil each have other admirers, namely Glenn and Kentucky respectively. They wind up switching partners.
* MeaningfulName: You couldn't hear accents in silent movies, so naming a character "Kentucky Stafford" lets the audience know that she's an innocent CountryMouse.
* NobleSacrifice: Billie figures out that not only does Kentucky love Gil, Gil has knocked Kentucky up. So to spare her friend Kentucky humiliation, Billie tells her father that she's the one who had sex with another man. Thus it's Billie who's dragged through the tabloid mud.
* OldFashionedRowboatDate: The lavish party Billie's father is throwing includes a little fleet of gondolas on the lake, with gondoliers to row the guests around. With Billie off paying attention to Glenn, Gil and Kentucky wind up snuggled up to each other in a gondola while they're rowed around the lake.
* OneNightStandPregnancy: Kentucky gets knocked up by that single encounter that she had with Gil after the party.
* SexyDiscretionShot: Gil and Kentucky have a passionate embrace. Cut to the next morning and Kentucky on a couch, looking up at the ceiling with a dreamy expression meant to make the audience understand she got laid the night before.
* SexySoakedShirt: Glenn and Billie get caught in the rain, which causes Billie to be drenched by the time they finally get to Glenn's cottage, which leaves her dress plastered to her body and leaving nothing to the imagination. Glenn embraces her but Billie manages to restrain herself and push him away.
* SittingSexyOnAPiano: Not to be outdone when she sees Billie join the band and play drums, Kentucky jumps on top of a piano and starts strumming a guitar.
* ThematicSeries: Second in a series of three films in which Joan Crawford and Anita Page play flappers, after ''Film/OurDancingDaughters'' and before ''Film/OurBlushingBrides''. The films don't share a continuity but all are romances with Crawford as a young flapper looking for love and eventually finding it.
* WorstNewsJudgmentEver: No big news stories in 1929, apparently, which is why "SOCIETY SHUNS BILLIE BROWN" and "MARRIAGE VOWS ANNULLED" are huge newspaper headlines.
* ZipMeUp: Kentucky ask Gil to fasten her watch. A little bit of touch from handsome Gil clearly gets Kentucky excited.
