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THE NICKEL HOPPER
4th film
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Director: Hal Yates
Photography: Floyd Jackson
Edited by: Richard Currier
Titles: H.M. Walker
Costumes: Will Lambert
Cast: Mabel Normand, Gertrude Astor, Boris Karloff, Oliver Hardy, Theodore von Eltz, Michael Visaroff, Margaret Seddon, Jimmy Harrison, Hammond Holt, J. Farrell McDonald, James Finlayson
Location: Roach Studio,
Plot: Mabel works as a taxi dancer to support the family for her good-for-nothing father. Father chases the rich hero (Theodore von Eltz) who marries Mabel.
Comments: The Nickel Hopper reflects Mabel’s own era, the roaring twenties! Here in the Jazz Age with the music she loved she plays an openly sexual dance hall flapper -- though perhaps not so provocatively as Clara Bow. Others in the dance hall will soon be familiar faces: Boris Karloff, the masher, and Oliver Hardy, the mad drummer, will both go on to prominence.
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