The Extra Girl (1923) with Mabel Normand Restored in 4 K Quality

The Extra Girl (1923) is the clichéd tale of a smalltown girl (Mabel Normand) escaping marriage to become a big Hollywood star. However, she wins a contract with a studio based on another more attractive girl s picture which had been sent instead of hers due to someone else s conniving wiles. Mabel Normand lived a very interesting life. She was the only female star from the golden age of burlesque. Her career skyrocketed in the 1910s, but it crashed when she found herself suspected of murdering director William Desmond Taylor in 1921 as she was the last person to see him alive. She was one of the many suspects including Edward F. Sands, Henry Peavey, Faith Cole MacLean, Charles Eyton, Mary Miles Minter, Charlotte Shelby, and Margaret Gibson. Due to poor crimescene management and overwhelmingly apparent corruption, most of the physical evidence was immediately lost and the rest vanished over the years. Many books have been published since, claiming to have identified the murderer, but the