His Nibs (film)

His Nibs 1921 is a comedy film starring Chic Sale and Colleen Moore.

The Girl Moore and The Girls father Dowling are talked into visiting the city by a swindler, but luckily they end up at the hotel where The Boy is working, and he disrupts the plot. All this is explained by His Nibs as the film shows, His Nibs offering his own commentary on the action as the story advances. Having eliminated the customary happy ending, His Nibs tells the audience that The Boy and The Girl got married just the same.The background of this film is complicated and unclear. The film was originally based on a short story, The Smart Aleck, by Irvin S. Cobb from The Saturday Evening Post, a story of a smalltown wit that travels to the big city and finds himself out of his depth. His Nibs started life as The Smart Aleck, a vehicle for Charles Chic Sale, a popular comedian popular in the 1920s for his caricatures of rural hick characters... a rural protean comedian according to the New York Tribune. Filmed between March and May 1920, The Smart Aleck was very different in style and form when it was released some time later as His Nibs. ........

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