Flirty Four-Flushers
About Flirty Four-Flushers
Waitress Aggie Horton, played by Madeline Hurlock, wins an essay contest, spends the money on clothes, and goes to a resort hotel as Muriel Marlboro to catch a rich husband. Billy Bevan plays both Jerry Connors and the millionaire Archibald De Shyster. The impersonation collapses in a run of hotel mix-ups.
Cast & crew
More about Flirty Four-Flushers
Edward F. Cline directed. Mack Sennett produced. Pathé Exchange released it in the United States on December 26, 1926. St. Elmo Boyce and Vernon L. Walker photographed it. William Hornbeck edited it. Writing credits include Al Giebler, Sennett, Jimmy Starr, and Phil Whitman. Carl Harbaugh is also named on the film. It is a remake of A Summer Tragedy (1910) and is credited to an O. Henry story. Ruth Hiatt was considered for a part.
Themes
Making
The resort footage was taken at Catalina and along the Santa Monica shore, not on a studio beach alone.
Look
St. Elmo Boyce and Vernon L. Walker shot the hotel and the Catalina locations.
Music
Silent.
Preservation
A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- Hurlock's two names in the film are Aggie Horton and Muriel Marlboro.
- Vernon Dent plays Bill Brown. Stanley Blystone plays Joe, Aggie's sweetheart. Billy Gilbert plays a soup-drinking customer and the hotel desk clerk.
- Sennett shot at Palisades Park, on Ocean Boulevard in Santa Monica, and at the Hotel St. Catherine in Avalon.
Scenes
- Aggie checks into the resort under the name Muriel Marlboro.
Influenced by
- A Summer Tragedy (1910)
- A story by O. Henry
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Flirty Four-Flushers (1926).webm)
