Photographed by Edward Steichen 1924
Gloria Swanson, born on this date in 1899, would've been 17 years old in
The Danger Girl, the frenetic twenty minute comedy
supervised by Mack Sennett (and embedded below). With six (count 'em, six!) lead characters, Swanson stands out as the madcap who dresses as a man to lure her girl friend's boyfriend away from the
other woman who is
vamping him. It's all extremely complicated for twenty minutes but Swanson gets a chaste kiss on the cheek from the
vamp (while she's dressed as a man) and moves further into
Yentl territory when, dressed in a tuxedo with top hat, she comes out as a woman to the man she loves (her girl friend's boyfriend, no less) and gets a kiss from him too - all in 1916!
The Danger Girl 1916
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