| The Manicure Girl | |
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 Lobby card | |
| Directed by | Frank Tuttle |
| Written by | Townsend Martin (scenario) |
| Story by | Frederick Hatton Fanny Hatton |
| Produced by | Adolph Zukor Jesse Lasky |
| Starring | Bebe Daniels |
| Cinematography | J. Roy Hunt |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 60 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
The Manicure Girl is a 1925 American silent romantic comedy [1] drama [2] film directed by Frank Tuttle and starring Bebe Daniels. [3] [4]
As described in a film magazine review, [2] a poor young manicurist becomes engaged to a poor young man who has saved enough money to build a bungalow to live in after they are married. The young woman craves riches and becomes interested in a married man who treats her gentlemanly and kindly. This "other" man is becoming estranged from his wife. The manicurist realizes her own influence in wrecking the marriage and, in sympathy with the wife, she effects a reconciliation between the two. Her fiancé lover quarrels with her, but there is a happy ending when the two decide to hasten their marriage.
Paramount Pictures ran an advertising tie-in with the Glazo nail polish company of Cincinnati, Ohio. [5] Movie theaters were encouraged to apply for promotional materials, which would then be distributed among local drug stores that sold Glazo products. [1]
The Film Daily reported that The Manicure Girl was one of the first American films to use the English gyroscopic camera, an early camera stabilizer, which was acquired for the production by Famous Players. It had previously been used on the German film The Last Laugh . The gyroscopic camera was a hand-held unit that allowed the camera operator to smoothly walk and follow actors. Tuttle wrapped filming three days ahead of schedule, to which he partially credited the new camera. [6]
The Exhibitors Herald listed the "sincerity of acting" as one of the film's highlights. [2] The Los Angeles Times , however, felt the film was underwhelming, and Variety labeled the film “a flop." [7]
Motion Picture News reported that the consensus on the film was that it was a "Very mediocre picture that didn't do well and didn't deserve to do well." [8]
With no prints of The Manicure Girl located in any film archives, [9] it is a lost film. [10]
Film Booking Offices of America (FBO), registered as FBO Pictures Corp., was an American film studio of the silent era, a midsize producer and distributor of mostly low-budget films. The business began in 1918 as Robertson-Cole, an Anglo-American import-export company. Robertson-Cole began distributing films in the United States that December and opened a Los Angeles production facility in 1920. Late that year, R-C entered into a working relationship with East Coast financier Joseph P. Kennedy. A business reorganization in 1922 led to its assumption of the FBO name, first for all its distribution operations and ultimately for its own productions as well. Through Kennedy, the studio contracted with Western leading man Fred Thomson, who grew by 1925 into one of Hollywood's most popular stars. Thomson was just one of several silent screen cowboys with whom FBO became identified.
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This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .Bebe Daniels, now appearing in the Paramount Picture, 'The Manicure Girl,' knows the value of beautiful nails. So do thousands of other 'stars' in society, business and the home. That's why so many smart women have adopted Glazo as their 'Manicure Girl.'
Two days after the latter opening, the 20 Jul 1925 LAT noted that the picture was outshone by the preceding stage show, while the 29 Jul 1925 Var dismissed the entire engagement as 'a flop.'
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