The Manicure Lady
About The Manicure Lady
A barber, played by Mack Sennett, shares a shop with a manicurist, Vivian Prescott. She turns him down and goes out with a rich man, Eddie Dillon. Sennett chases them, catches their car, and breaks up the date.
Cast & crew
More about The Manicure Lady
Mack Sennett directed the Biograph one-reeler. Edwin August wrote the scenario. Percy Higginson photographed it. The General Film Company released it on May 18, 1911. It was shot in Glendale. The rich man's car is D. W. Griffith's, with the initials D W G painted on the rear door.
Themes
Making
Sennett plays the barber in his own film and uses Griffith's automobile for the chase.
Look
Percy Higginson shot the Glendale street chase in Griffith's car.
Preservation
A 16mm print is in Richard M. Roberts's collection.
Notes
- Florence La Badie plays the cad's girlfriend, who is already in the car.
- Verner Clarges plays a flirting customer. Kate Bruce plays that customer's wife.
- William J. Butler plays the maître d' at the Casa Verdugo, the restaurant where Dillon takes the manicurist.
- Silent Era records a 16mm print in the collection of Richard M. Roberts.
- The short is on the home-video set The Mack Sennett Collection.
Scenes
- Jealous wives drag their husbands out of the manicurist's chair.
- Sennett's lunch in a cheap diner is cut against Dillon's restaurant date.
- Sennett climbs into the moving car.
Also available
- The Mack Sennett Collection (home video)
