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

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) An Effervescent American Girl

From one Manhattan party scene to the next, this time introducing top-billed Colleen Moore as aptly-named flapper Pert, again with emphasis on synchronized music and sound effects, also meeting dandified Jimmy (Louis Natheaux), William A. Seiter directing the slick 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.