A Little Bit of Fluff (1928 film)
A Little Bit of Fluff or Skirts is a 1928 British silent comedy film directed by Wheeler Dryden and Jess Robbins and starring Sydney Chaplin, Betty Balfour and Edmund Breon.
Production background
The film is based on the farce of the same title by Walter W. Ellis, which premiered at the Criterion Theatre, London, on 27 October 1915, featuring Ernest Thesiger as Bertram Tully.
This film version is predated by a 1919 film A Little Bit of Fluff directed by Kenelm Foss. In that adaptation, Thesiger reprised his role as Tully, as did Alfred Drayton (Dr. Bigland) and Stanley Lathbury (Nixon Trippett). The 1928 film features Syd Chaplin, the half-brother of both Charlie Chaplin and director Wheeler Dryden, as Tully. It was Chaplin's final film.
Synopsis
The misadventures of a young newly-wed man (Chaplin) and an exotic dancer (Balfour), the titular "little bit of fluff." Tully (Chaplin), an effete and completely mother-in-law-dominated new husband becomes unwittingly involved in boxer Hudson's plot to wrest his girlfriend's (Balfour's) $5000 necklace from her in order to pay his gambling debts. Living next door to Maggie, the exotic dancer, Tully is first introduced to her only because his mother-in-law demands that he go next door and make the noise cease—noise from one of Maggie's hedonist parties.
A Little Bit of Fluff
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A Little Bit of Fluff (1919 film)
A Little Bit of Fluff is a 1919 British silent comedy film directed by Kenelm Foss and Geoffrey H. Malins and starring Ernest Thesiger, Dorothy Minto and Bertie Wright. The film is an adaptation of the popular stage farce of the same name by Walter Ellis. It was made at the Kew Bridge Studios in London.
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A Little Bit of Fluff (play)
A Little Bit of Fluff is a British farce written by Walter Ellis which was first staged in 1915 and went on to have a long original run.
Adaptations
The play was twice turned into films during the silent era. A 1919 film A Little Bit of Fluff directed by Kenelm Foss and the 1928 film A Little Bit of Fluff which featured Betty Balfour, the most popular British actress of the day.
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