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Frame enlargement: Silent Era image collection.
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The Casting Couch
(1924) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by (unknown)
Cast: (unknown)
Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film uses dissolves to show lapses in time. An ad clipping seen in the film references “Kalem Studios”; this may have been a legitimate ad clipped from an old paper.
Erotica.
Synopsis: A woman inquires at a casting director’s office. He requests that she get dressed in a bathing suit. She does so and he peers at her through the keyhole. He comes into the dressing room under the pretense of looking for the bathing suit. They have a squabble about his advances and he leaves. She reads a pamphlet entitled “How to Become a Movie Star” then changes her mind.
Survival status: Print exists.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Actresses: Film - Books - Casting directors - Classified ads - Condoms - Dressing rooms - Newspapers - Scissors
Listing updated: 20 August 2018.
References: Film viewing.
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