Penultimate feature film of Mabel Normand. She would not make another film for three years until her last feature Raggedy Rose (1926). Four shorts would follow in 1926-7 and she would pass away in 1930.
Sue gets a letter from her parents stating her father sold his business for $15,000. That amount would equate to about $225,000 in 2019.
Included in "The Mack Sennett Collection Vol. One" Blu-Ray set, released by Flicker Alley.
The writer/producer, Mack Sennett, appears briefly in the screen test sequence, wearing a straw hat.
The Extra Girl is a 1923 American silent comedy film directed by F. Richard Jones and starring Mabel Normand. Produced by Mack Sennett, The Extra Girl followed earlier films about the film industry and also paved the way for later films about Hollywood, such as King Vidor's Show People (1928). It was still unusual in 1923 for filmmakers to make a film about the southern California film industry, then little more than ten years old. Still, many of the Hollywood clichés of small town girls travelling to Hollywood to become film stars are here to reinforce the myths of "Tinseltown."
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