Manhandled (1924)





Gloria Swanson plays Tessie McGuire, a shopgirl who, when her boyfriend breaks their date one evening, goes to a party with a louche crowd of artists and hangers-on. She wows them with some zesty mimicry, and so gains an introduction to a better-paying job, impersonating a high-toned Russian countess to attract snobby customers into a dressmaker's establishment.


Books with substantial mentioning of Manhandled

Robert K. Klepper
Silent Films, 1877-1996, A Critical Guide to 646 Movies
Jefferson, North Carolina and London, 1999

Richard Dyer MacCann
The Stars Appear
Metuchen, NJ & London, 1992

Lawrence J. Quirk
The Films of Gloria Swanson
Secaucus, New Jersey, 1984


Year: 1924
Country: United States
 
IMDb: 0015116