A Perfect 36 is a 1918 American silent comedy film directed by Charles Giblyn, written by Tex Charwate, and starring Mabel Normand and Rod La Rocque.[1] The plot involves Normand's clothes being stolen in a mixup while she was swimming, necessitating her spending most of the film running around naked trying to straighten everything out.
A Perfect 36 | |
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![]() Film still with Mabel Normand | |
Directed by | Charles Giblyn |
Written by | Tex Charwate |
Produced by | Samuel Goldwyn |
Starring | Mabel Normand Rod La Rocque |
Cinematography | Louis Physioc |
Distributed by | Goldwyn Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 50 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
Cast
edit- Mabel Normand as Mabel
- Rod La Rocque as O.P. Dildock
- Flora Zabelle as Lena
- Leila Romer as Landlady
- Louis R. Grisel as The Constable
- Edward Bernard as Sol Manheimer
Reception
editLike many American films of the time, A Perfect 36 was subject to restrictions and cuts by city and state film censorship boards. For example, the Chicago Board of Censors required a cut, in Reel 4, of four closeups of the young woman on the diving board.[2]
References
edit- ^ A Perfect 36, retrieved 2018-08-19
- ^ "Official Cut-Outs by the Chicago Board of Censors". Exhibitors Herald. 7 (26). New York City: Exhibitors Herald Company: 42. December 21, 1918.
External links
edit- A Perfect 36 at IMDb
- synopsis at AllMovie
- A Perfect 36 in Fandango
- A Perfect 36 in Turner Classic Movies
- A Perfect 36 in The Moving Picture World Magazine
- A Perfect 36 lantern slide Archived 2014-07-14 at the Wayback Machine at the Cleveland Public Library Digital Gallery
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