The Slim Princess (1915 film)

The Slim Princess is a lost^[1] 1915 comedic film directed by E. H. Calvert and starring Francis X. Bushman, Ruth Stonehouse and Wallace Beery. (This is believed to have been Beery's first full-length feature film.) The movie was written by Edward T. Lowe, Jr. from a story by George Ade and play by Henry Blossom, and was subsequently remade into a 1920 film starring Mabel Normand. The farcical plot involves a princess of a fictional country, loosely based upon Turkey, in which obese women are prized and the normal-sized protagonist is widely regarded as being too slender.^[2]

Cast

Francis X. Bushman ... Alexander H. Pike
Ruth Stonehouse ... Princess Kalora
Wallace Beery ... Popova
Harry Dunkinson ... Count Selim Malagaski
Terza Bey ... Princess Jeneka
Bryant Washburn ... Rawley Plumston
Lester Cuneo ... The Only Koldo

References

External links

• The Slim Princess at the Internet Movie Database
• The Slim Princess at AllMovie
• The Slim Princess in the New York Times
• The Slim Princess at Turner Classic Movies
• The Slim Princess at Fandango.com
• The Slim Princess background at Looking for Mabel Normand
• The Slim Princess synopsis at Hollywood.com