A Perfect 36

1918 American film
  • October 21, 1918 (1918-10-21)
Running time
50 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageSilent (English intertitles)

A Perfect 36 is a 1918 American silent comedy film directed by Charles Giblyn, written by Tex Charwate, and starring Mabel Normand and Rod La Rocque.[1] The plot involves Normand's clothes being stolen in a mixup while she was swimming, necessitating her spending most of the film running around naked trying to straighten everything out.

Cast

  • Mabel Normand as Mabel
  • Rod La Rocque as O.P. Dildock
  • Flora Zabelle as Lena
  • Leila Romer as Landlady
  • Louis R. Grisel as The Constable
  • Edward Bernard as Sol Manheimer

Reception

Like many American films of the time, A Perfect 36 was subject to restrictions and cuts by city and state film censorship boards. For example, the Chicago Board of Censors required a cut, in Reel 4, of four closeups of the young woman on the diving board.[2]

References

  1. ^ A Perfect 36, retrieved 2018-08-19
  2. ^ "Official Cut-Outs by the Chicago Board of Censors". Exhibitors Herald. 7 (26). New York City: Exhibitors Herald Company: 42. December 21, 1918.
  • A Perfect 36 at IMDb
  • synopsis at AllMovie
  • A Perfect 36 in Fandango
  • A Perfect 36 in Turner Classic Movies
  • A Perfect 36 in The Moving Picture World Magazine
  • A Perfect 36 lantern slide Archived 2014-07-14 at the Wayback Machine at the Cleveland Public Library Digital Gallery
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