The movie fans of the 1920’s wanted flamboyance to personify the age that became “The Roaring Twenties.” It was the age of superstars: that included Babe Ruth, Red Grange, Gertrude Erdele and Charles Lindbergh. America needed a super cowboy hero to compliment the period as the nation was returning to “Normalcy.” Post WW I audiences wanted to forget international troubles and escape into


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