Skinner's Dress Suit (1917 film)

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Skinner's Dress Suit
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Directed by Harry Beaumont
Written byCharles J. McGuirk
Based onSkinner's Dress Suit by Henry Irving Dodge
Starring Bryant Washburn
Hazel Daly
Harry Dunkinson
Cinematography Jackson Rose
Production
company
Distributed byK-E-S-E Service
Release date
  • February 6, 1917 (1917-02-06)
Running time
50 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguagesSilent
English intertitles

Skinner's Dress Suit is a 1917 American silent comedy film directed by Harry Beaumont and starring Bryant Washburn, Hazel Daly and Harry Dunkinson. It is based on the short story Skinner's Dress Suit by Henry Irving Dodge, which was again adapted into a silent film of the same title in 1926. [1]

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Plot

William Skinner is afraid to ask his boss for a raise, but has promised his wife that he will get one. He gets cold feet at the last moment and fails to actually request the raise, and when he returns home, he lies and says that his pay has increased by 10 dollars a week, which he is secretly taking from his personal account. With his new "raise," she orders him to buy a new dress suit, which wipes out his whole account, and they enter a party attended by the wealthy. With his dress suit and apparent new high class status, he gets acquainted with the upper echelons of society and succeeds in a massive business deal for his firm. Skinner hurries off to the company's office to tell his boss the good news, and demands not only a raise but a partnership, and gains both. [2]

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Production

A train chartered from Chicago to Milwaukee was used for the coach interiors. [3]

References

  1. ↑ Goble p.129
  2. ↑ "Skinner's Dress Suit. Motion picture copyright descriptions collection. Class L, 1912-1977". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2025-02-22.
  3. ↑ Moving Picture World. New York: Chalmers Publishing Company. January 20, 1917. p. 362.

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