Picking Peaches

Picking Peaches

MACK SENNETT'S FIRST 1924 BATHING GIRL COMEDY With all the celebrated Bathing Beauties.

NR 1924 · 22 min · ★ 4.2 · Comedy, Animation

A series of sketches with a shoe clerk, his wife, and his extra-curricular activities. The shoe clerk steps out on his wife with one of his customers. Both his wife and the woman's husband catch them when they go to the beach and later watch a beauty and fashion contest. His wife enters it wearing a mask. Back at work on Monday, all has returned to normal, until the winner of the contest shows up for her prize - a complete wardrobe...

Directed by Erle C. Kenton · Written by Pinto Colvig

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Cast

Harry Langdon A Shoe Clerk
Alberta Vaughn Harry's Wife
Ethel Teare Harry's Wife's Chum
Dot Farley The Customer
Kewpie Morgan The Customer's Detective Husband
Vernon Dent The Store Manager
Irene The Store Manager's Wife
Mary Akin Bathing Beauty
Andy Clyde Near-Sighted Shoe Customer
Jack Cooper Beauty Contest Emcee
Alice Day Store Secretary
Marceline Day Bathing Beauty

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