Merton of the Movies
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Merton of the Movies (1922), a comedy by George S.
Kaufman and Marc
Connelly. [
Cort Theatre, 398 perf.] Merton Gill ( Glenn
Hunter) is so film struck that he has become the joke of the tiny Illinois town of Simsbury. When his preoccupation causes him to neglect his duties as clerk in Amos Gashwiler's general store and get fired, Gill immediately heads for Hollywood, where he is befriended by “Flips” Montague ( Florence Nash), a bathing beauty in a famous slapstick series. She lands him a small part in a film, but Gill is disillusioned by the crassness and deception all about him; however, he plods on. He is finally cast in a slapstick comedy, which he plays with such serious intensity that he becomes a star and marries “Flips.” Based on Harry Leon
Wilson's series in the
Saturday Evening Post, the play was generally acknowledged to be the 1920s' best spoof of Hollywood.
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