A shocking newspaper headline appeared in the Pomona Bulletin 100 years ago this month: “‘Naughty’ Book Filmed Here”

The article, Sept. 24, 1925, told of “The Plastic Age,” a motion picture filmed during the summer on the campus of Claremont’s Pomona College.

The silent picture, based on a racy novel by Percy Marks, would be banned in some places because of too many scenes of alcohol use and general immorality of college students.

Pomona College was the background for the campus of the fictitious Sanford College. Local students were extras earning $7 a day as spectators and players in the football game scene, as well as a few actors whose fame and fortunate were still ahead for them.

The movie featured the silent movie sex symbol Clara Bow in what became her first major film success.

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