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While working as a dishwasher in a fashionable New York hotel, Elsie MacFarland often sneaks upstairs to enviously peek at the people dancing to jazz music. Seeing the attractive Elsie dressed in a boy's uniform, wealthy Lemuel Stallings wagers a friend that he can get Elsie onto the dance floor....
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- Date night
- Family movie night
- Friends night
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Critics vs audiences
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Critics 88GoodWatch 94
Tomatometer88%
Running time
50 min
Shorter than 9 in 10 comedies, −50 min on the typical 100
typical 10050Half of all comedies run 91–111 min.
Released
1919
August 3, 1919
107 years ago
Genre
ComedyLanguage
English
Original language
Made in
United States
and 3 moreDirecting · 1
- Victor Schertzinger Director
Writing · 2
- Robert F. Hill Writer
- Perley Poore Sheehan Story
Production · 1
- Samuel Goldwyn Producer
Camera · 1
- George Webber Director of Photography
Art · 1
- Hugo Ballin Art Direction
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