Comedy which concerns the struggles of an ambitious department store sales clerk who is caught up in New York high society.
Bippo (as M. Collosse)
Model
Landlady
Comedy which concerns the struggles of an ambitious department store sales clerk who is caught up in New York high society.
1924-07-21
6.5
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