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The Extra Girl is a american film of genre Comedy directed by F. Richard Jones released in USA on 28 october 1923 with Mabel Normand
The Extra Girl (1923)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 28 october 1923
Length 1h8
Directed by F. Richard Jones
OriginUSA
Themes Films about television
Rating66%
The Extra Girl is a 1923 American silent comedy film starring Mabel Normand. Produced by Mack Sennett, The Extra Girl followed earlier films about the film industry and also paved the way for later films about Hollywood, such as King Vidor’s Show People (1928). It was still unusual in 1923 for filmmakers to make a film about the southern California film industry, then little more than ten years old. Still, many of the Hollywood clichés of small town girls travelling to Hollywood to become film stars are here to reinforce the myths of Tinseltown.
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Sue Graham (Normand) is a small town girl who travels to Hollywood to escape marriage, and in the hope of becoming a motion picture star. She wins a contract with a studio on the strength of a picture of a quite different (and very attractive) girl sent instead of hers; but when she arrives the mistake is discovered. Since the error was the result of another’s deception, the studio manager agrees to give her a job in the costume department. She eventually gets the opportunity to screen test, but it turns out disastrously – although in a nod to the actress behind the character the director calls her "a natural comedian." Sue's parents come out to California, and invest money with a shifty individual who swindles them out of their life savings. Sue and childhood friend Dave, who has also followed her, retrieve the money. Despite the unsuccessful film career, all turns out well.Actors
Mabel Normand
(Sue Graham)
Ralph Graves
(Dave Giddings)
George Nichols
(Zachariah 'Pa' Graham)
Anna Dodge
(Mary 'Ma' Graham)
Louise Carver
(Wardrobe mistress)
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