Front Cover of the souvenir program.
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Directed by one of the biggest names on Broadaway at the time - David Belasco, whom the theatre in which this production was performed was named after.
Romantic comedy in which an engaged to be married woman (Helen Lowell as Mildred McCoy) unexpectedly falls for a very handsome young bank clerk (Bogie as Roger Baldwin).
In order to ditch her now unwanted middle-aged fiance (Harlan Briggs as G. A. Appleby) she tells him (falsely) that she is pregnant with another man's child.
But things do not go smoothly in the game of romance for Mildred.
Bogie performance in It's A Wild Child was noticed by a Hollywood agent who screen tested him for a role in The Man who came back. He never got the part, however as a direct
result of this screen test he was offered his first Hollywood contract at FOX for $750.00 per week.
It's A Wild Child opened at the Belasco Theatre on Aug 6th, 1929 and ran for 378 performances, finishing up on July 19th, 1930. |
