A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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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.