Her Wild Oat

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Her Wild Oat is a 1927 American silent comedy film made by First National Pictures. It was directed by Marshall Neilan and stars Colleen Moore. The screenplay was written by Gerald C. Duffy, based on a story by Howard Irving Young. The film runs 70 minutes and was released on December 25, 1927, with a budget of about $350,000 and English intertitles.

Background and production
- This was Colleen Moore’s first film after a contract dispute with her husband, John McCormick, and their studio First National forced them to briefly move from California to New York. They returned and made Her Wild Oat, instead of the planned Synthetic Sin, to finish quickly.
- The story is simple and was originally racier, but Neilan rewrote it to emphasize comedy. Filming took place mostly in California, using existing sets, with resort scenes shot at the Hotel del Coronado. Some scenes set in Plymouth Beach, Rhode Island show palm trees, indicating a different filming locale.
- Colleen Moore’s husband reportedly tried to re-edit the film while she was on vacation, and she returned to find the tops of the gags removed. This was Moore’s second film with Neilan, the first being Dinty (1920). Neilan later produced Social Register (1934) with Moore.

Preservation
- Her Wild Oat was thought to be lost, but a copy was found in 2001 in the Czech National Film Archive in Prague by Hugh Neely and was restored by the Academy Film Archive.