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July 1929 - SleepInn Beauty

Photo of filming SleepInn Beauty
Photo courtesy of Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society
Nearly half the length and less ambitious than A Race for Ties, the Port Arthur Amateur Cinema Society's second film, SleepInn Beauty is a comedy situated around a bathing beauty contest based on a story adapted by Dorothea Mitchell. Filmed over two days North of Port Arthur near Mitchell's camp at Surprise Lake, Wally McComber (the "Goof" of A Race for Ties) played the leading man and Maye Flatt, the leading lady. Fred Cooper shared the photography duties with Lloyd Small and took a minor acting role. In addition, over sixty extras were bussed in from Port Arthur to take part. The film was never exhibited publicly although, considering Mitchell's efforts with A Race for Ties, it was most certainly shown privately.


Film Credits

Director:Harold Harcourt
Scenerio:Dorothea Mitchell
Photography:Fred Cooper and Lloyd Small
Casting:Dorothea Mitchell


Cast

Dorothy Crocker
Mae Flatt
Frank Toole
Wally McComber
Duncan Roberts
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