The Extra Girl

The Extra Girl is a 1923 American silent comedy film starring Mabel Normand. Produced by Mack Sennett, The Extra Girl followed earlier films about the film industry and also paved the way for later films about Hollywood, such as King Vidors Show People 1928. It was still unusual in 1923 for filmmakers to make a film about the southern California film industry, then little more than ten years old. Still, many of the Hollywood clichs of small town girls travelling to Hollywood to become film stars are here to reinforce the myths of Tinseltown.

Actors Billy Bevan and William Desmond appear as themselves. Producer Mack Sennett can be glimpsed briefly as a strawhatted onlooker at Sues screen test.Directed by F. Richard Jones, the film features several shots of semirural Southern California the Edendale area along presentday Glendale Boulevard, where Sennetts studio was located showing houses and streets of the early 1920s, and of a Hollywood studio in action. One shot in particular, a highangle view, shows a film set, with actors, two cameras and operators, several production people, and a mood orchestra composed of a pianist and violinist, to set the proper mood for the actors. Another shows an open stage with crew scrambling up scaffolding to the sunlight diffusing panels above. ........

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