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The Extra Girl is a 1923 American silent comedy film directed by F. Richard Jones and starring Mabel Normand.[1] 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".

The Extra Girl
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Directed by	F. Richard Jones
Written by	Bernard McConville
Story by	Mack Sennett
Produced by	Mack Sennett
Starring	Mabel Normand Ralph Graves George Nichols
Cinematography	Eric Crockett Homer Scott
Distributed by	Associated Exhibitors Pathé Exchange
Release date	October 28, 1923 (1923-10-28) (United States)
Running time	68 mins.
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Plot

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.

Cast

Actors Billy Bevan and William Desmond appear as themselves. Producer Mack Sennett can be glimpsed briefly as a straw-hatted onlooker at Sue's screen test.

Production

Directed by F. Richard Jones, the film features several shots of semi-rural Southern California (the Edendale area along present-day Glendale Boulevard, where Sennett's studio was located) showing houses and streets of the early 1920s, and of a Hollywood studio in action. One shot in particular, a high-angle view, shows a film set, with actors, two cameras and operators, several production people, and a mood orchestra composed of a pianist and violinist, to set the proper mood for the actors. Another shows an open stage with crew scrambling up scaffolding to the sunlight diffusing panels above.

The Extra Girl was Normand's final feature film and her last film working with producer Sennett.[2]

Survival

Prints of The Extra Girl are held in several archives and it has been released on DVD.[1]

References

External links

• The Extra Girl at IMDb
• Synopsis at AllMovie
• The Extra Girl at the TCM Movie Database
• Stills at silenthollywood.com
• Stills and review at Looking for Mabel Normand
• The Extra Girl at the Internet Archive

На других языках

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- [en] The Extra Girl

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[ru] Статистка

«Статистка» (англ. The Extra Girl) — американский немой комедийный фильм 1923 года режиссера Ф. Ричарда Джонса с Мэйбл Норманд в главной роли[1]. Продюсером кинокартины выступил Мак Сеннет. «Статистка» продолжила серию ранних фильмов о киноиндустрии и подготовила почву для более поздних фильмов о Голливуде, таких как «Люди искусства» (1928). Однако в 1923 году съёмки фильмов о самих себе были кинематографистов редкостью, так как кинопроизводству в Южной Калифорнии на тот момент исполнилось чуть больше десяти лет. Тем не менее, многие голливудские клише о девушках из провинциальных городков, приехавших покорять Голливуд, в фильме присутствуют, что укрепляло уже сложившийся к этому времени миф.

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