Why Be Good? (1929) - (Movie Clip) An Effervescent American Girl

Why Be Good? (1929) -- (Movie Clip) Boiler Room

In the third consecutive Manhattan party scene opening the picture, this time at a nautically-themed night club where Prohibition is openly flaunted, flapper Pert (Colleen Moore) with hustling Jimmy (Louis Natheaux), spotted by blue-blood Peabody (Neil Hamilton) and pals, in Why Be Good?, 1929.

Why Be Good? (1929) -- (Movie Clip) I'd Be Disgraced

Director William A. Seiter and First National Pictures could probably be accused of showing-off their synchronized-sound technique, as buddies wait on Peabody (Neil Hamilton), who’s just met virtuous flapper Pert (Colleen Moore), whose parents (John St. Polis, Bodil Rosing) still worry, in Why Be Good?, 1929.

Why Be Good? (1929) -- (Movie Clip) Last Night Of Freedom

Impressive synchronized music and sound effects and a jolly Manhattan Jazz Age party, introducing Neil Hamilton as department store heir Peabody and later Edward Martindel as his beaming dad, in the last non-talkie starring the famed flapper Colleen Moore, First National’s Why Be Good?, 1929.