Spring Fever

Edward Sedgwick, MGM, 1927, from Vincent Lawrence's 1925 play. William Haines is shipping clerk Jack Kelly, who would rather golf; Joan Crawford is Allie Monte at the club. The AFI, sixty minutes, 22 October: he poses as the boss's nephew, wins with a spoon, and the class plot arrives with his father. Infobox lists sixty minutes; the Commons copy runs closer to seventy-eight. Their first onscreen pairing as a couple. Haines grinning through a handicap the country club cannot quite name.