Excerpts from "The Floor Below" (1918) with Mabel Normand

Excerpts from "The Floor Below" (1918) with Mabel Normand
from Nederland Film Museum archives
THE FLOOR BELOW
Goldwyn
6 reels, rel: Mar. 10, 1918
Last Chance
dir. Clarence G. Badger, auth. Elaine
Sterne, cam. Oliver T. Marsh
cast: Mabel Normand (Patricia
O’Rourke), Tom Moore (Hunter Mason),
Helen Dahl (Louise Vane), Wallace
McCutcheon (Monty Latham), Lincoln
Plummer (Uncle Amos), Charlotte
Granville (Mrs. Mason), A. Romaine
Callender (Ziegler), Louis R. Griswell
(Stubbs), Willard Dashiell (Managing
Editor), Texas Charwaite, W. W. Black
Location: Goldwyn studio, Ft. Lee, NJ
copyright: Mar. 7, 1918
I claim no rights of any kind; for sharing only.
Wm. Thomas Sherman, [e-mail], www.angelfire.c...

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It's always difficult to comment over the lapse of a hundred years, but Mabel's Goldwyn films were always said to be 'commonplace', meaning they were much like any other film of the time. It naturally follows then, that the Sennett films weren't commonplace. This is the same old Mabel, but there does seem to be something missing here, that is found in the Keystone and Sennett Comedies pictures. Call that spark 'It' if you want, but I am at a loss to explain what is absent. Mabel blamed it on poor direction, so maybe the absent element was her favourite director, F. Richard Jones? In any event, the Goldwyn pictures did not diminish her following, and we must feel privileged in being able to view the remaining scraps of Mabel's Goldwyn films. Thanks for posting this video.