1915Thanhouser CompanyOne reelComedy

Fashion and the Simple Life

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The story

“Nell loses her sylphlike figure—and with it her job as a model in a New York establishment. A certain salesman, Ned Warren, has paid her many attentions, but believing that he is in love with her fashionable appearance only, she has repeatedly rejected him. Now she tells him that she is going to Florida. She takes a train southward and gets off at a small country town, where she has already engaged a boarding place. Here, free from worry about her figure and her position, she lives on her savings and enjoys life. The salesman, needing a rest, also starts for Florida. He is sidetracked in the village where Nell is staying. The model fears that her very unfashionable appearance will disillusion her former suitor, but great is her relief to discover that Ned cares for comfort and naturalness far more than for style. They marry, buy a farm, and settle down to live the simple life together.”

Summary from Reel Life · 10 April 1915

What the papers said

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“The story of a lady model and a salesman who dislike their business and yearn for the simple life. The theme in this is better than the handling, but it is fairly interesting as it stands.”

The Moving Picture World · 1 May 1915

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From Volume II: Filmography of Q. David Bowers’ Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, reproduced with permission and unchanged. Read the history of 1915 →

Cite as: Bowers, Q. David. Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, “Fashion and the Simple Life”. thanhouser.org/films/fashion-and-the-simple-life/

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