Anything Once!
ANYTHING ONCE! is a Cinderella story. Mabel works in a tailor shop, pressing clothes and dreaming of a better life. We're told that she's taken a lot of bumps in life and doesn't know where the next bump is coming from, which sounds uncomfortably close to the leading lady's real-life situation. Her boss is Jimmy Finlayson, but instead of playing the expected sourpuss Finn is quite benign here, and doesn't even punish Mabel when she accidentally sets his toupee on fire.
From the archive
ANYTHING ONCE! Hal Roach-Pathe 2 reels, rel. Jan. 2, 1927 dir. F. Richard Jones cast: Mabel Normand, James Finlayson, Max Davidson, Theodore von Eltz, Nora Hayden, Von Sevefertitz, Leo White copyright: Dec. 31, 1926 Note. The version for .avi download here is somewhat better in picture quality than the one presented on video.
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- Director
- F. Richard Jones
- Starring
- Mabel Normand, James Finlayson, Max Davidson, Theodore von Eltz
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