Sweedie Goes to College
Released Spring 1915.
Cast: Wallace Beery, Gloria Swanson.
Director: E. Mason Hopper.
The "Sweedie" films were a series of short films featuring Wallace Beery as a gawky Swedish maid which were immensely popular with the public. They mainly consisted of pratfalls and involved Sweedie getting herself into various humorous situations. In this one, Sweedie gets a job at a girl's college dormitory. Swanson was cast as a snooty debutante.
Comments: Overall, Swanson despised the slapstick shorts like Sweedie and thought that they were distasteful. Luckily, this was the only one she had to appear in. It was on the set of Sweedie Goes To College that Gloria met her future first husband, Wallace Beery.
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Cast: Wallace Beery, Gloria Swanson.
Director: E. Mason Hopper.
The "Sweedie" films were a series of short films featuring Wallace Beery as a gawky Swedish maid which were immensely popular with the public. They mainly consisted of pratfalls and involved Sweedie getting herself into various humorous situations. In this one, Sweedie gets a job at a girl's college dormitory. Swanson was cast as a snooty debutante.
Comments: Overall, Swanson despised the slapstick shorts like Sweedie and thought that they were distasteful. Luckily, this was the only one she had to appear in. It was on the set of Sweedie Goes To College that Gloria met her future first husband, Wallace Beery.
Next film - The Romance of an American Duchess
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