The Amateur Adventuress (1919)
Comedy | 5 May 1919
Director:
Henry OttoWriters:
June Mathis, Luther A. ReedProducer:
Maxwell KargerProduction Company:
Metro Pictures Corp.The 12 Apr 1919 Moving Picture World announced the 7 Mar 1919 start of principal photography. An item in the 13 Apr 1919 Camera revealed that production had already been completed.
The Amateur Adventuress was released 5 May 1919, according to the 31 May 1919 Exhibitors Herald and Motography, although the 24 May 1919 Motion Picture News reported a scheduled 16 Jun 1919 release. The film opened in New York City on 27 Apr 1919, and at the Hippodrome in Los Angeles, CA, on 18 May 1919. Reviews were generally enthusiastic, as exemplified by the 24 May 1919 IExhibitors Herald and Motography, which described the satirical comedy as “piercing and at the same time highly amusing.”
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The 12 Apr 1919 Moving Picture World announced the 7 Mar 1919 start of principal photography. An item in the 13 Apr 1919 Camera revealed that production had already been completed.
The Amateur Adventuress was released 5 May 1919, according to the 31 May 1919 Exhibitors Herald and Motography, although the 24 May 1919 Motion Picture News reported a scheduled 16 Jun 1919 release. The film opened in New York City on 27 Apr 1919, and at the Hippodrome in Los Angeles, CA, on 18 May 1919. Reviews were generally enthusiastic, as exemplified by the 24 May 1919 IExhibitors Herald and Motography, which described the satirical comedy as “piercing and at the same time highly amusing.”
William Claxtonbury, the elderly, lecherous head of the Working Girls' Welfare Association, flirts with his pretty clients and gives plainer applicants an inspirational pamphlet. Claxtonbury's stenographer, Norma Wood, is engaged to George Goodie, a sanctimonious, miserly clerk, who looks forward to her continued employment after their marriage. Determined to have a fling at life, Norma walks out on Goodie and charges a number of gowns to Claxtonbury. Dressed in her new finery, she meets Oliver Morley at a restaurant. Oliver's sister, Mrs. Sentel, a wealthy widow whose two passions in life are her son Gregory and "the movies," hires Norma for $5,000 to lure Gregory from his portly sweetheart, a delicatessen owner's daughter. Using tips found in How to Win a Man in 48 Hours, written by a "picture vamp," Norma succeeds and Gregory proposes to her. Norma, however, realizes that she has fallen in love with Oliver and confesses all to him. Her love is reciprocated and Norma and Oliver plan to ...
William Claxtonbury, the elderly, lecherous head of the Working Girls' Welfare Association, flirts with his pretty clients and gives plainer applicants an inspirational pamphlet. Claxtonbury's stenographer, Norma Wood, is engaged to George Goodie, a sanctimonious, miserly clerk, who looks forward to her continued employment after their marriage. Determined to have a fling at life, Norma walks out on Goodie and charges a number of gowns to Claxtonbury. Dressed in her new finery, she meets Oliver Morley at a restaurant. Oliver's sister, Mrs. Sentel, a wealthy widow whose two passions in life are her son Gregory and "the movies," hires Norma for $5,000 to lure Gregory from his portly sweetheart, a delicatessen owner's daughter. Using tips found in How to Win a Man in 48 Hours, written by a "picture vamp," Norma succeeds and Gregory proposes to her. Norma, however, realizes that she has fallen in love with Oliver and confesses all to him. Her love is reciprocated and Norma and Oliver plan to marry.
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