''Good and Naughty'' is a 1926 American silent

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film directed by Malcolm St. Clair and starring

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and Tom Moore. It was based on the play ''Naughty Cinderella'' by Henri Falk and René Peter. Released in 1926, it is a romantic comedy of

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about 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

Reception

''Good and Naughty'' earned a measured approval by

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film critic

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.''Good and Naughty'' at Lost Film Files: ''Paramount Pictures'' - 1926

Notes

References

*Dwyer, Ruth Anne. 1996. ''Malcolm St. Clair: His Films, 1915-1948.''

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, Lantham, Md., and London. * Hall, Mordaunt. 1925. ''The Screen: “Naughty Cinderella”'' ''

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'', June 14, 1926. https://www.nytimes.com/1926/06/14/archives/the-screen-naughty-cinderella.html Retrieved 10 June, 2024.

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