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
- ^ A Perfect 36, retrieved 2018-08-19
- ^ "Official Cut-Outs by the Chicago Board of Censors". Exhibitors Herald. 7 (26). New York City: Exhibitors Herald Company: 42. December 21, 1918.
External links
- A Perfect 36 at IMDb
- 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