The Venus Model

{{short description|1918 American silent romantic comedy film}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Use American English|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox film | name = The Venus Model | image = File:The Venus Model.jpg

| caption = 1918 advertisement | director = Clarence G. Badger | producer = | writer = | starring = Mabel Normand | cinematography = J.C. Bitzer | editing = | distributor = Goldwyn Pictures | released = {{Film date|1918|6|16}} | runtime = 50 minutes | country = United States | language = Silent (English intertitles) | budget = }} '''''The Venus Model''''' is a 1918 American silent romantic comedy film starring Mabel Normand and directed by Clarence G. Badger. The film was made at Goldwyn Studios in Fort Lee, New Jersey.<ref>{{Citation |last=Koszarski |first=Richard |title=Fort Lee: The Film Town |place=Rome, Italy |publisher=John Libbey Publishing -CIC srl |year=2004 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5w0r8YKan04C&q=Fort+Lee:+the+film+town+Door+Richard+Koszarski | isbn=0-86196-653-8}}</ref> It is not known whether the film currently survives,<ref>[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/V/VenusModel1918.html Progressive Silent Film List: ''The Venus Model''] at silentera.com</ref> and it may be a lost film.

==Plot== thumb|Lobby card for the American comedy romance film ''The Venus Model'' (1918) thumb|Rod La Rocque and Mabel Normand As described in a film magazine,<ref>{{cite journal |title=Reviews: ''The Venus Model'' |journal=Exhibitors Herald |volume=7 |issue=1 |page=45 |publisher=Exhibitors Herald Company |location=New York City |date=June 29, 1918 |url=https://archive.org/details/exhibitorsherald07exhi}}</ref> Kitty O'Brien (Normand), a seamstress in the factory of Braddock & Co., in an effort to escape punishment from the foreman she had mimicked, flees into the manager's office. While explaining her presence she shows a bathing suit she has designed, John Braddock (Francis) embraces the idea and the display of the suit brings orders galore. When Braddock is compelled to take a rest, Kitty takes charge of the plant. She gives a young male applicant a job as office boy, but discovers he is the son of her employer, Paul Braddock (La Rocque), expelled from college. She frees him from an indiscreet love affair and, with the return of the elder Braddock, a romance is culminated.

==Cast== * Mabel Normand as Kitty O'Brien * Rod La Rocque as Paul Braddock * Alec B. Francis as John Braddock * Alfred Hickman as Nathan Bergman * Edward Elkas as Briggs * Edward Boulden as Bagley * Albert Hackett as Boy * Una Trevelyn as Hattie Fanshawe * Nadia Gary as 'Dimples' Briggs

==Reception== Like many American films of the time, ''The Venus Model'' was subject to restrictions and cuts by city and state film censorship boards. For example, the Chicago Board of Censors cut, in Reel 4, the intertitle "Well, you be at my apartment tonight and dig up $10,000".<ref>{{cite journal |title=Official Cut-Outs by the Chicago Board of Censors |journal=Exhibitors Herald |volume=7 |issue=2 |page=31 |publisher=Exhibitors Herald Company |location=New York City |date=July 6, 1918 |url=https://archive.org/stream/exhibitorsherald07exhi#page/n92/mode/1up}}</ref>

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== External links == {{commons category|The Venus Model}} * [https://archive.today/20130915132451/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/115503/Venus-Model/overview ''The Venus Model''] in the New York Times * {{IMDb title|0009760}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Venus Model, The}} Category:1918 films Category:1918 romantic comedy films Category:American silent feature films Category:American black-and-white films Category:Goldwyn Pictures films Category:Films shot in Fort Lee, New Jersey Category:Films directed by Clarence G. Badger Category:1918 American films Category:English-language romantic comedy films Category:American silent romantic comedy films Category:1918 English-language films