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The Merry Models
(1915) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by Wallace Beery
Cast: Ben Turpin [Bloggie], Margaret Joslin [Bloggie’s wife], Harry Todd [Mustang Pete], Carrie Turpin [Mustang Pete’s wife], Ruth Saville, Belle Mitchell, Robert McKenzie, Charles Allen Dealey
Essanay Film Manufacturing Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Released 9 December 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? When the manager of the Brezlah Café receives a telegram informing him that the marble statues which he ordered were destroyed by fire, he employs Bloggy and Mustang Pete to pose as statues in his café. The patrons are deceived and compliment the manager for his taste in the selection of the statuary. All goes well until both the wives of Bloggy and Mustang enter the café and recognize their husbands. A riot ensues in which the place is completely wrecked, and the two statues are chased home by the angry wives.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 28 October 2022.
References: Spehr-American p. 598 : Website-IMDb.
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