''A Perfect 36'' is a 1918 American silent

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directed by

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, written by Tex Charwate, and starring

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and Rod La Rocque. The plot involves Normand's clothes being stolen in a mixup while she was swimming, necessitating her spending most of the film running around naked trying to straighten everything out.

Cast

as Mabel * Rod La Rocque as O.P. Dildock * Flora Zabelle as Lena * Leila Romer as

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* Louis R. Grisel as The

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as Sol Manheimer

Reception

Like many American films of the time, ''A Perfect 36'' was subject to restrictions and cuts by city and state film censorship boards. For example, the Chicago Board of Censors required a cut, in Reel 4, of four closeups of the young woman on the diving board.

References

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''A Perfect 36'' lantern slide
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