Good and Naughty

Good and Naughty
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Directed by	Malcolm St. Clair
Written by	Avery Hopwood Pierre Collings
Based on	Naughty Cinderella byHenri Falkand René Peter
Starring	Pola Negri Tom Moore
Cinematography	Bert Glennon
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	June 7, 1926(1926-06-07)
Running time	6reels
Country	United States
Language	Silent(Englishintertitles)

Good and Naughtyis a 1926 Americansilentromantic comedyfilm directed byMalcolm St. Clairand starringPola NegriandTom Moore.It was based on the playNaughty CinderellabyHenri Falkand René Peter. Released in 1926, it is a romantic comedy ofmistaken identityabout an attractive interior decorator (Negri) who is forced to make herself unattractive so she can be hired by a firm that has a policy against hiring attractive women.

Plot

As described in a film magazine,because a firm has a policy against hiring attractive women because they soon marry other employees and then quit, Germaine Morris makes herself unattractive and is hired as an interior decorator. She is secretly in love with the firm's head, Gerald Gray, who has been courting Claire, the wife of one of his patrons, Thomas Fenton. Claire invites Gerald to accompany them on a yachting trip. To allay suspicions, Gerald's friend Bunny West arranges for chorus girl Chouchou Rouselle to come along with them as his pretend fiancé. When the latter is unable to go, Germaine tells Bunny that she will go instead of the chorus girl. Germaine boards as her regular self, a woman of amazing loveliness, and Gerald, Bunny, and the Fenton's all fall in love with her. After several situations, including Claire confessing to her husband that she was being courted by another man, Gerald arranges a reconciliation between the husband and wife and then proposes an arrangement between himself and Germaine so that she can become a former employee.

Cast

Tom Moore and Pola Negri inGood and Naughty

• Pola Negrias Germaine Morris
• Tom Mooreas Gerald Gray
• Ford Sterlingas Bunny West
• Miss DuPontas Claire Fenton
• Stuart Holmesas Thomas Fenton
• Marie Mosquinias Chouchou Rouselle
• Warner Richmondas Bad News Smith

Reception

Good and Naughtyearned a measured approval byNew York Timesfilm criticMordaunt Hall,who deemed the film “an artificial but competently acted screen chronicle” and “an agreeable entertainment proving its worth by the periodical outbursts of laughter it elicited.” Hall added that though the film was appreciated by the theatre patrons “some of the humor is built on extraneous gags that do not help the continuity of the narrative, even though they had the desired effect upon the audience.”

Preservation

With no prints ofGood and Naughtylocated in any film archives,it is alost film.

References

• Dwyer, Ruth Anne. 1996.Malcolm St. Clair: His Films, 1915-1948.The Scarecrow Press,Lantham, Md., and London.ISBN0-8108-2709-3
• Hall, Mordaunt.1925.The Screen: “Naughty Cinderella”The New York Times,June 14, 1926.https:// nytimes /1926/06/14/archives/the-screen-naughty-cinderella.htmlRetrieved 10 June, 2024.

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