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Manhandled

192463 minUnited States
Drama
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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: English.
This copy runs
62:42
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Synopsis

A shop assistant's talent for impersonating a Russian aristocrat wins attention at a party and leads to work attracting wealthy customers. Entering fashionable society brings advantages but distances her from the people she knows. Her boyfriend mistakes the attention of influential men for evidence that success has changed her loyalties and principles.

Cast

DirectorsAllan Dwan

Behind the scenes

Allan Dwan directed Gloria Swanson at Paramount's Astoria studios in New York. The setting keeps the comedy close to the city's working life and department-store culture, even as the heroine experiments with a manufactured upper-class identity.

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