True To The Navy - 1930 - 5/10
Hash house waitress Ruby specializes in sailors. Flirting shamelessly and receiving gifts.
How much exchange is involved? With Clara Bow’s screen persona, a lot.
Getting even, the seamen send in their dashing shipmate (Fredric March?) who ignores her.
Thus, she falls for him!
Early Bow talkie is a RomCom, but lacks spark. The boom mic made her anxious, and March is no romantic.
It also looks cheap, as Clara’s star was dimming and Paramount was cutting her budget.
There is a Silent version of this in supposedly an excellent print.