Port Arthur Amateur Cinema Society
July 1929 - SleepInn Beauty
 Photo courtesy of Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society |
Nearly half the length and less ambitious than A Race for Ties, the Port Arthur Amateur Cinema Society's second film, SleepInn Beauty is a comedy situated around a bathing beauty contest based on a story adapted by Dorothea Mitchell. Filmed over two days North of Port Arthur near Mitchell's camp at Surprise Lake, Wally McComber (the "Goof" of A Race for Ties) played the leading man and Maye Flatt, the leading lady. Fred Cooper shared the photography duties with Lloyd Small and took a minor acting role. In addition, over sixty extras were bussed in from Port Arthur to take part. The film was never exhibited publicly although, considering Mitchell's efforts with A Race for Ties, it was most certainly shown privately.
Film Credits
| Director: | Harold Harcourt |
| Scenerio: | Dorothea Mitchell |
| Photography: | Fred Cooper and Lloyd Small |
| Casting: | Dorothea Mitchell |
Cast
| Dorothy Crocker |
| Mae Flatt |
| Frank Toole |
| Wally McComber |
| Duncan Roberts |
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