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{{Infobox film<br />
| name = Girls Demand Excitement<br />
| image = Girls Demand Excitement lobby card.jpg<br />
| caption = Lobby card<br />
| director = [[Seymour Felix]]<br />
| producer =<br />
| writer = [[Harlan Thompson]]<br />
| starring = [[John Wayne]]<br>[[Virginia Cherrill]]<br>[[Marguerite Churchill]]<br />
| narrator =<br />
| music =<br />
| cinematography = [[Charles G. Clarke]]<br />
| editing = [[Jack Murray (film editor)|Jack Murray]]<br />
| distributor = [[Fox Film Corporation]]<br />
| released = {{Film date|1931}}<br />
| runtime = 65 minutes<br />
| country = United States<br />
| language = English<br />
| budget =<br />
| gross =<br />
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'''''Girls Demand Excitement''''' is a 1931 American [[pre-Code]] film starring [[Virginia Cherrill]], [[John Wayne]], and [[Marguerite Churchill]]. Wayne and Churchill had starred in the [[widescreen]] [[Western (genre)|Western]] epic ''[[The Big Trail]]'' the previous year. The movie was written by Harlan Thompson and directed by [[Seymour Felix]]. Wayne stated this film was the worst movie he ever appeared in.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fZ1NDwAAQBAJ&q=John+Wayne+considered+this+his+worst+movie+Girls+Demand+Excitement.&pg=PA14|title = Becoming John Wayne: The Early Westerns of a Screen Icon, 1930-1939|isbn = 9781476664132|last1 = Powell|first1 = Larry|last2 = Amsbary|first2 = Jonathan H.|date = February 15, 2018}}</ref> A 35mm nitrate work print of this film is stored in the UCLA Film and Television Archive.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://dukewayne.com/index.php?thread/1694-girls-demand-excitement-1931/|title = Girls Demand Excitement (1931)}}</ref><br />
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==Plot==<br />
Peter Brooks is a hard-working but struggling college boy who resents girls being allowed to attend college. A wealthy young spoiled socialite named Joan Madison changes his mind when she uses her feminine wiles to entrap him. Later in the film, Brooks's men's basketball team goes up against the college's all-girl team.<br />
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==Cast==<br />
* [[Virginia Cherrill]] as Joan Madison<br />
* [[John Wayne]] as Peter Brooks<br />
* [[Marguerite Churchill]] as Miriam<br />
* [[Marion Byron]] as Margery<br />
* [[Ray Cooke]] as Jimmie<br />
* [[Helen Jerome Eddy]] as Gazella Perkins<br />
* [[Winter Hall]] as The Dean<br />
* [[George Irving (American actor)|George Irving]] as Mr. Madison<br />
* [[William Janney]] as Freddie<br />
* [[Jerry Mandy]] as Joe<br />
* [[Addie McPhail]] as Sue Street<br />
* [[Edward J. Nugent]] as Tommy<br />
* [[Martha Sleeper]] as Harriet Mundy<br />
* [[Emerson Treacy]] as Bobby Cruikshank<br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[John Wayne filmography]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{IMDb title|id=0021911|title=Girls Demand Excitement}}<br />
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[[Category:1931 films]]<br />
[[Category:1931 romantic comedy films]]<br />
[[Category:American black-and-white films]]<br />
[[Category:Fox Film films]]<br />
[[Category:1930s English-language films]]<br />
[[Category:1930s American films]]<br />
[[Category:Silent American romantic comedy films]]<br />
[[Category:English-language romantic comedy films]]<br />
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